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Angus Grigg

Let's face it, email has had its day

Unlike electronic mail, committing something to paper and spending $1 on a stamp suggests the contents might actually be worth reading.

An old contact wrote me a letter recently. Once I got over the shock that mail was still delivered to the office and that I actually had a pigeon hole, I rang to ask the obvious question: Why?

“I’m a great believer in letter writing,” Slasher said. “Besides, nobody reads emails.”

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Angus Grigg is an investigative reporter based in Sydney. He has worked as a foreign correpondent in China and Indonesia, and has won two Walkley Awards. Connect with Angus on Twitter. Email Angus at agrigg@afr.com

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