I AM tito enough to experience sending air mail to my relatives abroad. Millennials and zennials may not understand how people communicated before when a long-distance telephone call was more expensive, let alone, teleconferencing. Today, with social media and Android or iOS, you can Facetime with your loved ones hundreds of miles away inexpensively.

When we were using snail mail, it would take two weeks for your letter to reach the American continent, so you waited a month or so for a reply. That is, if the reply was immediate. But writing letters could be taxing for us before Microsoft Word.

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