The fun of 'religious life'

There is a custom in 'religious life' whereby members when signing off in letters use the expression 'Fraternally'.

But it seems to 'hide' a reality.

In that 'big bad secular' world it is taken as a given that a registered letter sent to a person's address and signed for will be redirected if the person no longer happens to be living at that address. On the other hand, it will not be accepted and signed for. But not so at many 'religious communities'.

Registered letters, arrive, signed for and thrown in a box and forgotten about. Why does the community not do the honest thing and not sign for the letter and so not accept it? That would be an honest thing to do.

It is awful. And the 'fraternal' sign off is so often a lie and humbug.

And accepting a letter with no intention of delivering it is probably a civil offence. It's certainly not nice, nothing friendly about it. God-like, Christian? But all part of the package. The tip of the iceberg.