Half of all British youth between the age of 12 and 17 say they’ve never sent an actual letter—you know, one with a stamp—in their lives. About 5 percent say they don’t know how.

Of course, they’re not alone. Many adults say they’ve also stopped sending letters, with a third of those polled by the company WeTransfer saying they can’t remember the last time they sent a letter to someone they know.

Teens say the process just doesn’t fit the times, with 21 percent saying it took too long for recipients to receive letters, and 17 percent saying sending a letter was too expensive. That might explain why email is still a favorite mode of correspondence. More than nine in 10 teens, and more than half of adults, say they send several emails a day. (London Telegraph)

Paul Asay has covered religion for The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Beliefnet.com and The (Colorado Springs) Gazette. He writes about culture for Plugged In and wrote the Batman book God on the Streets of Gotham (Tyndale). He lives in Colorado Springs with wife Wendy and his two children. Follow him on Twitter.