Like so many more small satellites around the Earth is a collection of short independent fictional stories featuring women and men who do not know each other and who have absolutely nothing to do with each other but who nevertheless have in common the fact that at least once, one day, they have used a "tool" that is, however, very real: snailmailsurprise.

snailmailsurprise.com is a website that offers an original postal mail transmission service by providing a solution to those who have a real paper letter to send but who would like it to be posted from a place where they are not.

This service, whose principle is extremely simple, owes its success to Internet users who, all over the world, volunteer to play the role of "Helpers" and agree to become, in their country, relays to whom letters are entrusted so that they can frank and post them.

In Like so many more small satellites around the Earth, different motivations lead the heroines and heroes to want to use this original postal service. These examples are as many alibis for the well-foundedness of the existence and the concept of snailmailsurprise.com. They are also as many pretexts to paint the portraits of people like the reader; but not always...