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It probably wasn't written to the quantity it is today, but it doesn't mean it wasn't used.
Mass literacy wasn't a thing until the past 100 years, so a lot of people didn't even write anything down about their lives.
Even once mass literacy was adopted, the written word was generally sent to specific places. Outside of combat messengers, letters generally went to specific places where people would pick them up. If you were able to read the written message, you were probably in a known location to the sender.
It isn't until cellular text messaging or Internet chat where it became common to not know where a person was when you were talking to them.