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People Send Email to Trees in Australia

posted by martyb on Friday February 01 2019, @10:46AM   
from the beware-the-drop-bears dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Australia is a very friendly place. Mostly. It's so friendly people send email to trees. Yes, you read that correctly. Email. To trees. "Dear Nettle, I just moved in three months ago and I'm very glad that I can talk to you through this system. I live in the first floor and I can actually see you through my window!" is an example of the mail sent to various trees around the place. Along with notes of love people send ponderous queries in like "would you consider your fingers to be your branches or your roots?". No word on whether or not any of the trees have replied.

No doubt the Labor government will bemoan the lack of NBN (National Broadband Network) access for the trees as the reason why they don't reply.

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• Re:Demographics? (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Friday February 01 2019, @12:18PM

  by c0lo (156) on Friday February 01 2019, @12:18PM (#794996) Journal

  Who is writing emails to trees?

  Enough Americans among them.

  Dear Smooth-barked Apple Myrtle,

  I am your biggest admirer. I have always wanted to meet you, but tragically, I’m stuck in New York.

  Dear Syzygium Lilly-Pilly,

  This is not a report on your wellbeing, in case someone reading this is looking for issues they need to fix. This is simply a letter to a tree, because I would like someone new to talk to, a stranger, and what better stranger to pick than a tree who lives across the world?

  I do not live in Australia, I live in America, and have my whole life. I have not even left this country, although I would like to, someday. I would like to travel the world.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

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