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News We Can Use: A Simple Way to Stand Out (AKA Jimmy Fallon Is Onto Something)

October 4, 2011 by bestpublicist-mwc Leave a Comment

This week, the Postal Service shared that the average household gets one personal letter about every seven weeks. That’s a significant drop from 1987, when people received a letter about every two weeks. Makes sense, given that cursive writing itself may be headed for extinction; to date, 41 of the 50 states have dropped it from their teaching curriculum.

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