There is a huge amount of literature saying that handwriting has gone downhill. I'm kind of skeptical because if you look at the 1950s, which we remember now as the golden age of penmanship, there was a huge amount of literature saying that penmanship was going downhill because of the typewriter and the Dictaphone and the telephone. They spend less time writing, so they get less practice. What's interesting now is the development of these handwriting fonts for computers. You send in samples of your handwriting and they create a personalized font.
People get tired of things that are all printed with a word processor.
We like to see something a little bit more stylized. Many of these handwriting fonts are quite popular. The post office has asked us to look into it. They would like to recommend what handwriting fonts their business mailers should use. They say this is, in fact, what happens in real handwriting, so they are probably dealing with some of the same issues you are.