This high school graduate doesn’t know how to mail a letter
I’m not sure who to blame. His mother, perhaps, or the public school system. But it turns out that my son – days away from graduating from High School- does not know how to send mail through the U.S. Postal Service.
I am not making this up.
The boy has a smartphone, a tablet and a laptop, does some basic coding, is pretty good at CAD and gets excellent grades. He can bang out what appears to be 60 words per minute using only his thumbs. But a letter? Forget about it – he doesn’t even know how to properly address an envelope.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “This high school graduate doesn’t know how to mail a letter”
Mom?!! Where has Dad been for the past 18 years! Isn’t he capable of teaching his son to address an envelope?
I’m not sure who to blame. His mother, perhaps, or the public school system. But it turns out that my son – days away from graduating from High School- does not know how to send mail through the U.S. Postal Service.
Mom?!! Where has Dad been for the past 18 years! Isn’t he capable of teaching his son to address an envelope?