[slightly OT] Free snail mail to your MP (well you need to buy an envelope)

Posted by Patrick Dinnen on Jan 15, 2006; 4:33pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/slightly-OT-Free-snail-mail-to-your-MP-well-you-need-to-buy-an-envelope-tp161.html

First, I'd like to say I'm really pleased to see this mailing list get
started. There seems to be a lot going on in the sphere of civic data
access in Canada and I'm really excited to see where this goes.

Here's the (not exactly on topic bit). I was looking for something
unrelated on the Canada Post site and came across the fact that you can
send letters to your MP without needing to attach a stamp, which seems
cool to me. Maybe everyone in the world but me knew that already.
(http://tinyurl.com/car9p).

Could be quite relevant in terms of being able to get your voice heard.
I've heard that letters tend to have more weight with MPs than emails
so, I suppose because of the perception of the extra effort needed
writing a letter, finding an envelope and actually remembering to drop
it in the mail.

Patrick Dinnen