Given the options I'd actually have to agree with the ad. Long-distance phone calls would have been prohibitively expensive and there's always the pleasure of receiving communication on the day of celebration instead of days before or after like with a mailed letter.
Oh, you're right - those reasons didn't occur to me, especially since people are always making long-distance phone-calls in the old series books I read or in the old movies I watch.
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