This acts as a filter that was important to me. The women with personal access to email are, as a rule, more eductaed, and more likely to speak English.

Also, I am an impatient cuss. I couldn't stand waiting for two weeks for a letter to get to me.

However, I was told by more than one lady that they had a collection of postage vouchers from men, and that they found the whole concept silly. If they wanted to write to a man, they could get the postage somehow.

I'm sure there are ladies who cannot. But everyone I met and takled to -- on two continents -- seemed to think that they could.

FWIW