Remember last month when I said, “Hey everybody… let’s freak someone out!” Well, I don’t think it really freaked her out as much as completely and utterly thrilled her which is WAY BETTER than actually freaking someone out anyway.

I got email from Erin Delaney recently and she has given me permission to post it here. Ironically, you will notice that she mentions she doesn’t have my snail mail address. I was probably one of the last ones to write her (my bad) and I’m hoping the problem is that she just hasn’t received my note yet and not that it was waylaid by the U.S. Postal Service. (I might have really made the Postmaster General mad with all my marketing brouhaha from a few weeks ago.)

Anyway, here is Erin’s note. I am sure you will be as thrilled to read it as I was. How delightful. This was so much fun we’re going to do it again with another unsuspecting victim.

Wendy,

If I had your snail mail address, I would have mailed this message to you. I must say that it was one of the most exciting moments to get a call from my boss who had five letters all addressed to me from Flower Mound, TX; Chicago, IL; Pittsburgh, PA; Newport, RI; and Rochester, NY. I have to say that it was definitely a “freakout” moment! The excitement of opening each letter was overwhelming. I actually opened all of them then just looked at each trying to decide which treasure to plunder first.

Of course your dedicated readers mentioned your website, which I happily took a look at. I noticed that one of your readers, Stephanie, mentioned that she was overseas in Austria and that it posed a problem for proper timing for the full “freakout” effect, but I’d tell her that a good letter is worth the wait!

After reading each letter and reviewing your website, I was compelled to email you and let you know that I am going to write a follow up article for the Weekender based on your website, letters, and readers soon. It’d be great to talk with you (or even correspond with you) and I will keep you and your readers posted on when it will go to press.

Please let your readers know that I loved the letters and that I will respond to all of them that I received. I’d even love to correspond with even more of them! Furthermore, thanks for letting me know that letter writing hasn’t become a lost art.

Feel free to post this on your site if you’d like and check out my blog as well!

Erin L. Delaney
Read my blog at: www.erindelaney.blogspot.com

Tags: letter writing campaign, results of writing, you guys did great

Do you feel like writing a celebrity? Over at Spread Change, I’m asking people to send a note telling John Tesh how great he is for making the site Intelligent Kindness. If you feel like sending him a little note, you can wander over there and get the info.

Tags: celebrity, good deed, letter writing campaign

Hannah Nicklin, the lovely English playwright, wants to write more letters. Through her I recently discovered the web site postletters.org — “a UK-based, worldwide movement to encourage, promote and take delight in the activity of writing letters and sending post.”

If you go over to the site you can request to join the movement and at some time in the future you will be sent an interesting missive that will hopefully inspire you to write more letters. In fact, that’s the whole purpose of the web site — to get you fired up and get to writing.

Zip over there ASAP and enjoy yourself. Support the movement! Support letter writing!

Tags: fresh link, letter writing campaign, letter writing movement, web site