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I'm not sure who to blame. His mother, perhaps, or the public school system. But it turns out that my son - days away from graduating from High School- does not know how to send mail through the U.S. Postal Service. 

I am not making this up.

The boy has a smartphone, a tablet and a laptop, does some basic coding, is pretty good at CAD and gets excellent grades. He can bang out what appears to be 60 words per minute using only his thumbs. But a letter? Forget about it - he doesn't even know how to properly address an envelop