Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter

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Post by jeremyarussell » Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 1:23 AM UTC

I sent mine off a bit ago, thanks a ton for doing this. Here's to making a difference.

Re: Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter

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Post by bpowah » Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 1:24 AM UTC

I absolutely love the idea. I cant remember where I read it or heard it, but physical letters do get much more attention. Nothing against SendWrite, but I think even more attention can be gained via distinctive-looking enveloped letters that need to be cut open and unfolded. A stack of similar-looking postcards will have an impact in terms of volume, but will likely be sorted into a bin and never read. If you have the time and have extra company logo-ed envelopes, please consider sending one by hand as well.

Re: Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter

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Post by dev1n » Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 1:30 AM UTC

Thank you for making this a free letter.

Re: Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter

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Post by epi0Bauqu » Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 1:30 AM UTC

I'd love to send people to this site, but I worry people who have never heard of the bill won't know what is going on. Can you embed the explanation video or point to or something?

Edit: I see you just did. Thx! I just linked to it on DuckDuckGo as well as donated and sent my letter. Thanks again.

Re: Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter

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Post by colevscode » Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 1:32 AM UTC

bpowah wrote: post #22

I absolutely love the idea. I cant remember where I read it or heard it, but physical letters do get much more attention. Nothing against SendWrite, but I think even more attention can be gained via distinctive-looking enveloped letters that need to be cut open and unfolded. A stack of similar-looking postcards will have an impact in terms of volume, but will likely be sorted into a bin and never read. If you have th…

Thanks! Just to clarify, SendWrite letters are mailed in an envelope, so each one will need to be opened. Also we deliberately didn't use a pre-written letter as a template. The result is that the letters we have received are very unique.

Re: Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter

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Post by gus_massa » Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 1:34 AM UTC

The names in the DropDownList Control are invisible in IE8: http://imgur.com/7UIbT

Re: Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter

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Post by mmmmax » Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 1:38 AM UTC

kschults wrote: post #18

Thanks for a great tool. A suggestion: I'd like to be able to send a letter to all of my representatives and senators at once, instead of having to fill out the form multiple times.

that might get expensive for SendWrite...

Re: Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter

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Post by curiousepic » Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 1:43 AM UTC

Upvote this on Reddit for more volume: http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsendwrite.com...

Re: Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter

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Post by coreyrecvlohe » Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 1:53 AM UTC

Great idea, just sent letters to both of my Senators.

Re: Tell congress to stop SOPA with a physical letter

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Post by frossie » Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 1:55 AM UTC

chrischen wrote: post #15

Really nice of you to have made this free. I would have paid! I wouldn't have sent this if not for sendwrite, just because the cost for me to type, print, stamp, and mail an envelope is too high.

I would have paid!

For those who have yet to do it, I should point out that there is a PayPal donate button to support this effort that you are shown after submission of your entry. Send cards to all your representatives, then send those nice folk a couple of bucks to cover the postage at least.