Pen Pals

Back in the Dark Ages, known fondly as "my youth", we "met" people from other countries through a program in school known as "Pen Pals".

You chose a country you were interested in, (France or Italy) and paid a small fee.
The company matched you up with someone of similar age, hopefully from the country of your choice, and you received a light blue, very thin envelope marked "Par Avion" or "Air Mail", and you started your corespondence.

Sometimes you got art work on the letter.

Always interesting.
I was never good at keeping up with my letters.

With the internet today,
do those little blue envelopes
still flit about the globe?

P.S. Those dark ages were only 25 short years ago...