'Snail Mail My Email' turns your Emails into handwritten notes

'Snail Mail My Email’, an initiative launched by artist Ivan Cash in 2011, is aimed at preserving the charm of handwritten notes in the digital age of sending emails and has reportedly seen success in its third installment.

So Cash set out to write more letters through "Snail Mail My Email." For 30 days, he and hundreds of volunteers turned strangers' submitted email messages into handwritten notes.

Cash and his team send your first letter, but it's up to you to keep the handwritten correspondence going. The project was enormously successful, with Cash and his team sending more than 10,000 letters. The project even landed him a book deal comprised of photos from the monthlong event.

"Emails are great and all, but god there are so many of them, and they are so much less intimate and personal than receiving a letter in the mail," Cash said.

Now, two years later, "Snail Mail My Email" has become an annual week-long event. In 2012, project volunteers from all over the world, including students at a grade school in the Czech Republic, sent more than 3,000 letters. This year, Cash said that over 200 people have signed up to write.

"What's amazing about this project to me is the generosity of the volunteers through the years," Cash said, remarking on the time and resources from his collaborators. "To me, it speaks to the essential value of human connection in our increasingly digital world."