Writing Letters

In high school, I discovered that if you send letters to politicians or corporations, there is a very good chance that you will receive a response.  I did not send spurious letters, but letters of interest to me.  And, I received responses. 

In the late 1980s, I discovered Lazlo Toth by Don Novello http://www.amazon.com/The-Lazlo-Letters-Don-Novello/dp/1563052857.  His letters were generally sent in jest, but he frequently received serious or satirical responses.  He has three books that you can find on the website, and that I own. 

Over the years, I got out of the habit of sending letters.  But, with the advent of the Internet, sending emails has become easy.  The sad part about that is that the volume of emails usually precludes a response, or the response is not timely, or so canned that it is meaningless.

But sending letters is still important.