My own handwriting has deteriorated since I was in school. I seldom write anything but my signature. Occasionally I write notes to myself (I carry a small notebook everywhere I go.) or I take telephone messages for someone else. I guess I'm impatient ; I tend to write too fast, and I have to mentally tell myself : SLOW DOWN! When I slow down enough to make my cursive writing legible, it feels agonizingly slow. If I need to write a person's name, or an email address, I always PRINT.

I don't write letters, or long notes. I even send email to my own wife, if I have something important to tell her, and she's not home. I'm afraid I'll forget to tell her later.

Before I retired, I noticed that in business, handwriting is becoming less and less necessary. Occasionally I had to fill in a form, but forms always tell you to write in BLOCK LETTERS. (It's a good thing.)

Oddly enough, computerization has caused an INCREASE in the use of handwriting (or hand-printing) in one area : addressing envelopes. Back when people used typewriters, it was a simple matter to type an address onto an envelope. Now that we have switched to computers, people often hand-write addresses because they can't figure out how to feed an envelope into the printer!