If this man is nostalgic let him scribble away. Many, including myself, still write letters. But it's a bit absurd to bemoan the faster and easier in favor of what he sees as romantic. People still know how to do arithmetic and write the letters of the alphabet. To spend 30 minutes doing what can be done in half the time with a small machine is ridiculous.
Absolutely. Modern technology just allowed you to double-post in seconds what would havd taken much longer had you had to write it twice longhand. (kidding, of course)