In your grandfather's day, nobody had yet mailed weaponized anthrax
spores to Congress. But after envelopes of anthrax were sent to Tom
Daschle and Patrick Leahy in 2001, letters sent via U.S. mail to members
of Congress go through a screening that delays them by at least two
weeks. Since then, for any time-sensitive issue, fax is the preferable
alternative to mailed letters.
Mark Rosenthal
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On 12/19/2011 9:46 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
Since my grandfather was a in the Massachusetts House, I'll share
something he taught me: if you /really/ want to get their attention,
take my advice.
Sit down and use a pen to write a letter by hand. Do /not/ use a
printer or word processor: write it *BY* *HAND*, in cursive, and then
send it off to Washington.
People are funny: writing a letter with a paper and pen is hard work -
and your elected representatives /know/ that. They know that someone
willing to go through that much trouble is /really/ hot under the
collar, and hand-written letters are the only ones that get prompt,
individual attention.
Email is analyized and weighted for keywords, after being run through
/very/ expertly devised filters which identify "mail bomb"
auto-writing campaigns and chain letters. Printed mail is often simply
weighed, after being sorted by zip code. Only hand-written letters get
seen by a real person.
FWIW. HTH.
Bill
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