Girl’s letter to mail carrier goes viral
Postal workers across the U.S. now writing to her
Emerson Weber has pen pals in Idaho, Minnesota and New York.
Each letter is a soliloquy, containing anecdotes about her little brother Finn, corny jokes, meditations on the awesomeness of Taylor Swift.
Her envelopes are works of art.
“I spend a really long time decorating the envelopes,” Emerson, 11, told me. “I feel like when you see a piece of art in your mailbox it stands out and you probably read it first.”
Emerson lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She is, like much of the world, hunkered down at home right now. Fifth grade is happening online. Extracurriculars are paused. Friendships are happening via mail, mostly. Emerson doesn’t have her own phone.
“My parents said they won’t even about it until eighth grade,” she said. “But I like to keep in touch with people. I’m really chatty. I’m a people person.”
So she writes letters. In early April, she wrote a letter to her mail carrier.
“I’m Emerson,” she wrote. “You may know me as the person that lives here that writes a lot of letters & decorated the envelopes. Well, I wanted to thank you for taking my letters and