SULAT MULAT: PHILPOST CELEBRATES LETTER WRITING AT SM

In celebration of World Post Day, the Philippine Postal Corporation (PhlPost) recently revived the joys of letter writing with school children in Sulat Mulat, held at the Sky Dome at SM City North Edsa. Similar activities took place at SM City Baliwag, SM City Pampanga, SM City Naga, SM City Baguio, SM City Consolacion, SM City Davao and SM City Iloilo.

A joint project between PhlPost and SM with support from the Department of Education, and

Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, Sulat Mulat aims to reintroduce the art of letter writing to students and

encourage them more to use letters as means of communication in today’s digital age.

It gathered over 1.2 Million elementary and high school students nationwide for a ‘Thank You

LetterWriting’ activity. The activity which was held simultaneously in different areas also helped

the students hone their composition skills and foster the enjoyment of sending and receiving letters

through the postal office.

Participants wrote their thank you letters, put on stamps and dropping these in the mailbox,

something that they never experienced. Philippine Post also provided stamps and mailbox to complete

the experience.

Post Master General Maria Josephine dela Cruz, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino Director

General Roberto Añonuevo, Assistant Postmaster General Maura M. Baghari Regis, Program Specialist for Bureau of Secondary Education Anna Sol Reyes, and Manila Bulletin’s External

Affairs Head Barbie Atienza graced the Skydome event. SM executives led by City North EDSA AVP for Edsa Renee Bacani welcomed them.

Highlighting the Filipino’s skill in letter writing was the presentation of the Universal Postal

Union’s Award of Merit to Cy Rodriguez, whose entry in the 42nd International Letter Writing

Competition for Young People placed fourth among more than a million entries worldwide.

Rodriguez, then a Senior Student at the Sen. Renato Cayetano Memorial Science and Technology High

School joined the contest in 2012, and is the first Filipino to receive such recognition.

Philippine Post plans to make the National Letter Writing Day an annual event and hopes to

secure a presidential proclamation to institutionalize the occasion.

        Sulat Mulat is one of the many exciting events at SM Supermalls.

Photo 1: PHLPost Postmaster General & CEO Hon. Ma. Josefina M. Dela Cruz led the recent

Sulat Mulat letter writing day at SM City North EDSA. She is shown with PHLPost Director Hon. Felipe Hildalgo Jr., Sen. Renato Cayetano Memorial Science and Tech. Highschool Foundation School

Principal Dr. George P. Tizon, , Assistant Postmaster General Maura M. Baghari-Regis, DepEd

Education Program Specialist for Bureau of Secondary Education Ms. Anna Sol B. Reyes, and

Manila Bulletin’s External Affairs Head Mr. Barbie Atienza.

Photo 2: Cy Rodriguez, First Mention, 2013 UPU Int’l Letter Writing Contest receives his Award of

Merit.

Photo 3: Local and International Letters that were mailed during the launch of National Letter Writing

day will be given a priority stamp by the Postmaster general. Letters with the PMG stamp will have an

express delivery faster than regular mailed letters.

Photo 4: San Sebastian HS students join the other 1800 students who participated in the Nation Letter

Writing day

Photo 5: The letter writing day aims to give students the experience of writing letters and preserve

the art of writing letters as well.

Photo 6: The simultaneous letter writing event took place across SM City Baliwag, SM City Baguio, SM City Naga, SM City Ilo-ilo, SM City Consolacion , and SM City Davao.

Photo 7: Sen. Renato Cayetano Memorial Science and Tech. High School Principal Dr. George P. Tizon,

SM AVP for Operations Arch. Renee Bacani, Assistant Postmaster General Maura M. Baghari-Regis

and DepEd Education Program Specialist for Bureau of Secondary Education Ms. Anna Sol B. Reyes

Photo 8: PHLPost Postmaster General & CEO Hon. Ma. Josefina M. Dela Cruz