You might not believe it

[conuly]

but I actually am terrible at writing persuasive letters.

At least, I think I am, and therefore I never really do it.

This is a bit of a vicious cycle, but not one I'm going to fix today.

Does anybody have any forms to send to my various legislators, state and federal, about... everything?

To repeat, today's cases - dropped on a Friday, like the fucking cowards they apparently are - are regarding gun control, abortion, and Miranda rights, and I know that last one is really slipping under the radar, but man, it pisses me off almost as much as the other two.

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[(Anonymous)]

I was a Ministerial correspondence officer, for a short while, and often worked with that office for a couple of years (in Canada, about twenty years ago so your mileage may vary).

I would not argue with those numbers. However, I will note that large campaigns of letters that are identical or near identical, other than the name and address can be treated differently inasmuch as they may receive a form response. Groups of letters that are sufficiently similar in content can also be grouped for form response. A large part of the fear is the amount of work that it takes to craft individual responses. If you want to distinguish your letter, do not use a template that provides more than the elements, above.

Letters received by e-mail could, sometimes be treated somewhat differently from letters received on paper. Hand writing was not treated differently, even when it was annoyingly hard to read (though this might slightly bias response letter drafters). I will say that some of us had a running joke that, even though it was very, very hard to get permission to refrain from response to a given letter and/or writer, the advice that we would give was not to use more than three colours of crayon to hand-write letters to government officials.