Memo To Self: Step Away From The Smartphone And Put Pen To Paper

April 2, 2014 - PRLog -- Step away from your smartphone and take some time out from your tablet – that’s the message from office supplies firm memoetc.co.uk which has come out to show its support of this year’s National Stationery Week campaign.

2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War and the third annual National Stationery Week campaign, taking started on 31^st March and runs until 6^th April, is dedicated to encouraging youngsters to write to one another, rekindling the notion that receiving a handwritten letter is as uplifting experience today as it was 100 years ago.

The event, which is organised by the London Stationery Show, is the culmination of the year-round campaign to Get Britain Writing when the nation can send letters to one another and focus on communicating via cards and notes.

Jason Bridgewater, Director of Ecommerce, from memoetc.co.uk, is hoping the country gets behind this year’s week-long event. He said: “Research suggests that consumers spend an incredible 3.3 hours per day using their smartphone with 85 per cent of smartphone owners saying that mobile is a central part of daily life[1] (http://#_ftn1).

“We realise that contacting and being contactable immediately is important. Whilst we aren’t suggesting users should stop communicating via mobile completely, we’d like to encourage people to consider sending a handwritten note from time to time. Recipients tend to remember and treasure handwritten letters – I wonder if the same could be said for a text, tweet or Facebook post…?”

To encourage Brits to get writing during National Stationery Week, memoetc.co.uk is offering a ten per cent* discount on all orders placed until 6^th April.

Memoetc.co.uk stocks more than 10,000 products from the leading office supplies and stationery brands from business machines and technology, paper, computer hardware and software, facilities management along with a huge range of ink, toners and office furniture.

For more information visit www.memoetc.co.uk

* ten per cent off orders totalling £70 or over