In as much as it seems like you are making a noble gesture for metrication, just blindly writing to a company can be the wrong thing to do. You never know who will be answering your request. The person answering your request may be very strongly anti-metric and either ignore you or provide you with the same type of answer you received.
First of all, you need to do some research on the company. You need to know where they are headquartered and what type of people work for them. When addressing a letter to a company it is best to address it to a specific person, hopefully someone who well educated, has a position in the company, and who can make things happen. You also have to come across as someone who is a good customer of theirs. If they buy and sell internationally, than that can be a plus for metrication. If they have a foreign owner, then best to write the parent company. Writing to the foreign owner may prove to them that there are Americans who prefer metric and may encourage them consider introducing some metric sized products. Jerry ________________________________ From: Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 9:26:45 PM Subject: [USMA:44751] online food seller I wrote to an online food seller asking them to include package sizes in kilograms on the website. I got the following reply: "We have no interest in confusing folks with a mix of metric and English pounds." Should the FPLA be amended to apply to online food sellers? Or does a different law apply? Pierre
