Snail Mail Club
• – • Grand Rapids, 49503
About this Club
In a time of instant messages and passive scrolling (and a loneliness epidemic!) physical, handwritten messages are an act of intention and care.
Let’s deliver more soul to mailboxes where bills and junk mail have become the norm.
Whether you want to jot off postcards or dive into long epistles, come discover, revive, and carry forward the personalized, analog, and FUN practice of letter writing and postal mail! 🐌📬
✨WHAT TO EXPECT
✔️ This is a dedicated space for letter writing, whether you want to send mail to a personal connection, write to someone new, or contact your representatives on matters close to your heart or urgent to our times.✔️ Gatherings will generally be open for you to write to whomever you want, with ideas or prompts always available.
✔️ Future gatherings may be dedicated to letter-writing campaigns such as Vote Forward or other member-suggested themes.
🎒WHAT TO KNOW OR BRING
✔️ Bring your own stationery and supplies for yourself, to share, and/or to swap!✔️ We’ll have extra stationery and pens available, too.
✔️ If we’re meeting at a local business, please consider making a small purchase to support them (coffee, notecards, etc.) if you can.
✔️ We rely on the generosity of community spaces and businesses to host these gatherings for free, and availability might change with short notice. If we need to change locations, I’ll send an email update as soon as possible before our meeting time.
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Hi! I’m Ashley. As a kid, I enjoyed fun stationery and exchanging letters. (In elementary school, I wrote to Mister Rogers and got a letter back!) As an adult, I briefly worked at a local stationery and gift shop, which allowed me to seriously expand my stationery collection. I started this club to carve out space for myself and others to return to or start a snail mail practice, so we can connect to others more meaningfully than our always-on screens allow.
