Foreign Letters: Science Fiction

The foreign letters made her upset. She didn't like getting letters with weird lettering in an alphabet she didn't understand. They smelled like spices, but none she'd ever tasted. Even the texture of the paper was not quite right--too smooth, too soft for a real pen to write on, even though it looked like it was written by hand. She thought maybe it was a marketing trick, and she found it irritating. Sometimes they even forgot to put postage on, but the letters still arrived, so she thought maybe it was a marketing campaign from the post office. "Get all your foreign mail easily" or something like that. She wrote a letter to the post office complaining, but they didn't do anything. Not for weeks. Even then, it wasn't a postal employee who knocked on her door. It was a man in a suit, with dark glasses and clip-on earpieces that she'd seen in TV--

Inspiration: Some livejournal community promo.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: First contact done old school.