A stamp is the price of participating in the letter revolution.

Cecilia Wilson and Richard Hjort behind Letters Revolution. You can read more about their litter throwing by other kommunkationsformer as email, SMS and Facebook here http://brevrevolutionen.bloggagratis.se.

There was once a world where man wrote by hand, a world full of carrier pigeons and clattering typewriters. Then one day came computers. And Facebook. And e-mail. That day the handwritten word fell into a coma and survived only by posting a postcard from Mallorca. Which is a shame.

Getting a letter is exciting. When I got a letter for the first time, I wondered what was wrong. Nobody would of course send letters anymore, except an old poet who is a friend of my grandfather. All you get in your mailbox is bills, magazines or a pound of advertising from Göfab. Therefore, I twisted and turned the brown envelope for several minutes, wondering who this strange person with the spiky handwriting was. Then I opened it. Then I was stuck.

Getting a letter is not even comparable to someone writing you on Facebook, or to a new mail arriving in your inbox. When you receive a letter, you feel chosen. Every time I open an envelope starting to read my friend's words, it feels special, almost sacred. I can see him, how he looked when he wrote it. We write to each other about most things, the stuff we might as well could have taken over a cup of coffee or on the phone, but instead we choose to put little pieces of our world in an envelope. Why? In order to feel more, and I think everyone should get the chance to feel a bit more now and then.

Therefore the Letter Revolution started as a sub-action to 365 things. This is about someone (you perhaps?) who wants to start writing letters submit their home address to us at brevrevolutionen@gmail.com and we pair you with another word hungry soul. One of you will receive a letter from us with your friend's address in the letter and the other becomes the lucky recipient of The First Letter that gives you a little joy between the morning coffee and bills.