What is "nothing to write home about"

Usage examples of "nothing to write home about".

Lattimore complained that Chiang Kai-shek was nothing to write home about.

But as soon as the Soviets didn't need Chiang and Mao's Communists besieged the Chinese Nationalist government, suddenly Lattimore complained that Chiang Kai-shek was nothing to write home about.

We get to the top of the spur and we're in among the Alpine Ash, big trees all right but nothing to write home about, I've seen as big as these before a few times.

But my parents had taught me that everybody deserved respect, no matter if they were pansies or not, and to tell the truth, I was nothing to write home about in the physical looks department.

When I rang her later that night - Harry answered, his bad manners whetted by a fortnight in Paris - and Rachel did the crying: I felt, well, nothing much, nothing to write home about.