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

Posted by Hugh McGuire on Jan 15, 2006; 4:42pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/slightly-OT-Free-snail-mail-to-your-MP-well-you-need-to-buy-an-envelope-tp161p162.html

MPs are required by law to answer letters & phone calls. not so with
email, so letters are much more important.

though perhaps we should try to get a law passed to force them to answer
emails too.

Patrick Dinnen wrote:

> 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
>
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