Stationery in Today’s World
Even the modern technology has failed to stop the use of stationery, especially the office supplies which sometimes defines the company that it represents. This kind of paper sometimes even personifies the one using it.
The advent of electronic mail and the networking websites, tools that have slowly replaced the use of stationery. Even official communications which used an official stationery has been replaced with bulletins posted on company websites or chat messages delivered in real time from the top management to their supervisors and people on the field.
In most companies, the use of official stationery is still ever present in communications with official letters between the company and its partners or its customers are still the medium of communications.
Because of this, some expert say the market of stationery, official or otherwise, is still going growing. Little girls even in develop countries still use this kind of paper in sending missives to their playmates, or young boys use stationery to send their first love letters.
Industry experts also said that even with the million Internet users, the impact of the cyberspace on the stationery is still minimal. This is because, although electronic cards, as expected, can replace those beautifully designed paper cards and can be attached to the electronic mails, the message is still special when it is written on a stationery placed inside a hand-crafted card.
Stationery, therefore, has preserved the human touch of communication. It will take several years, if not centuries, before this paradigm is changed. After all, no one can sleep with the computer underneath his or her pillow…
