Aside from a single hand-delivered letter, they never hear from the father again.

A hand-delivered letter awaited him in the rack.

The fired employees received hand-delivered letters yesterday morning, and were told to leave by the end of the day.

And when I got home from the conference I found a hand-delivered letter from a conservative Spanish friend.

But in an era of voice mail and E-mail, even his hand-delivered letters are sometimes ignored.

She says she received a personal, hand-delivered letter from Diane Sawyer.

The employees received hand-delivered letters, were locked out of their computers within the hour, and were told to leave by the end of the day.

The next morning, hand-delivered letters stamped "confidential" arrived with word that Carnegie would be announcing some acoustical experiments that afternoon.

Years later, they received a hand-delivered letter at their home, John Donohue said.

He said he had sent hand-delivered letters to all of the tenants on Thursday indicating that the work was scheduled.