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“Noting that some great books have been written based on letters sent by the Founding Fathers and by soldiers, Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, urged the postmaster general to run an advertising campaign urging Americans to send more letters to each other.

“There is something special about receiving a piece of first-class mail, knowing that it comes from someone you care about,” she said. “I really believe that if someone would begin to market the value of sending a written letter to someone you love, you might be surprised what it will do for your Christmas season.”


9 posted on 09/07/2011 4:06:22 AM PDT by Pelham (Let's all celebrate America's first Illegal Alien President)
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Thank you, kind sir (or madam)....for the superb, and very rapid..research ...


12 posted on 09/07/2011 4:08:48 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: Pelham

>>”Noting that some great books have been written based on letters sent by the Founding Fathers and by soldiers, Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, urged the postmaster general to run an advertising campaign urging Americans to send more letters to each other.<<

The Founding Fathers found email to be far too impersonal and didn’t trust online banking.


18 posted on 09/07/2011 4:17:09 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (California: Making Texas more Conservative one voter at a time)
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