Seven Year Itch Letters: How China is Fighting High Divorce Rates

A few weeks ago I mentioned Mexico City's proposed attempt to lower divorce rates: set an expiration date for all new marriages. (Here's my post about the proposal, and here's a link to Colbert's "wag of the finger" to Mexico City.)

So now China is weighing in with their own attempt at lowering the divorce rate: Seven Year Itch Letters.

A website called Digital Spy reports:

Chinese postal authorities have attempted to cut the country's divorce rate by creating a mail service to combat the seven-year itch. 

Newly-married couples in Beijing are being encouraged to send time-delayed love letters to their spouses in an effort to keep their relationships alive.

Beijing residents can buy special cards for this purchase, and in other areas couples are given love letter packs when they register for marriage.

Will it work? My guess is that fixing struggling marriages takes more than pre-nuptial notes. Then again, it can't hurt. 

For more on the Seven Year Itch, click here.