I opened the newspaper this morning, and there it was. We weren’t on the list. And I had to ask myself, WHY WEREN’T WE? The places considered ‘safe’ for tourists to enjoy the wonders of Mexico can apparently only be found in Loreto and Los Cabos in Baja California, and on the mainland, San Miquel de Allende, Merida, Cancun/Riviera Maya, Rivera Nayarit, Valle de Bravo, Oaxaca and San Cristobal de La Cases. That’s what this list implies, anyway.
….In reading a recent article in the USA Today newspaper, it recounts that with the advancement of technology, especially that of the computer and the wide use of email and texting, correspondence sent by way of the post office has fallen to all-time lows. According to the same article, only roughly .7% of mail received via the post office is made up of personal letters. The wide majority (22%) of post office usage is from some form of advertising, in the form of fliers, brochures, and circulars, etc. Roughly 13% of received ‘mail’ are billing statements of one type or another. I found it interesting that only a measly 1% of mail is made up of payments—which means the wide majority of people are paying their bills online, paying by phone or paying in person. And with texting, and the various abbreviations people use to get their message across as succinctly and concisely as possible, our entire written language has been undergoing further evolution (further deterioration, according to many people) over the past few years.
