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Speaker 1: This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2: Today's tip is to hand out sass that is, self
Speaker 2: addressed stamped envelopes. If you'd like for people to write
Speaker 2: you or someone else about something in particular, making it
Speaker 2: very easy is one way to increase the chances that
Speaker 2: it happens. So one of my children is headed off
Speaker 2: to a traditional wilderness camp where the kids don't have
Speaker 2: electronics for the time while they are there. This means
Speaker 2: that we will be back to very old fashioned communication methods.
Speaker 2: The camp will require the younger campers to write to
Speaker 2: their parents, but as part of this they require the
Speaker 2: parents to send in self addressed stamped envelopes. All the
Speaker 2: kid has to do is write the note and then
Speaker 2: off it goes. Those of us of a certain age,
Speaker 2: remember when so called sasse were a part of building
Speaker 2: a writing career. You sent in a manuscript somewhere, and
Speaker 2: if you wanted a response of whether it would be published,
Speaker 2: or if you wanted your manuscript returned, you sent an
Speaker 2: sase in with it. Now, I am sure that sounds
Speaker 2: so ridiculously quaint. Now I mean couldn't you just email it?
Speaker 2: Couldn't everyone respond by email? Well, not really. Postal mail
Speaker 2: was how it was happening, but looking up an address
Speaker 2: and finding a stamp was still unasked. So the point
Speaker 2: was that if you wanted a response, you needed to
Speaker 2: make it easy for the person to give you a response.
Speaker 2: An sasee made that happen. Will Folks don't necessarily use
Speaker 2: postal mail all that often anymore, or it is still
Speaker 2: fun to get mail, but looking up an address and
Speaker 2: finding a stamp can make it all a lot more challenging.
Speaker 2: So if you would like to facilitate some sort of
Speaker 2: male communication, you can give someone the equivalent of an
Speaker 2: sas to make it easier. For instance, if you would
Speaker 2: like your college aged kid to write to an older
Speaker 2: relative who doesn't really use email all that much, you
Speaker 2: can send along a handful of stamped envelopes addressed to
Speaker 2: that relative to make it easier. Or maybe you would
Speaker 2: like your neighbors to write to your representatives.
Speaker 1: About an issue. In this day and age, physical letters
Speaker 1: still have a formality to them that email doesn't always have.
Speaker 1: Your neighbors may care a lot about an issue, but
Speaker 1: the effort required to address and stamp an envelope may
Speaker 1: present just enough of a hurdle that they get distracted.
Speaker 1: Hand them an addressed, stamped envelope open you clear that problem.
Speaker 1: Or perhaps you and your significant other will be separated
Speaker 1: for a while. You might wish that your significant other
Speaker 1: wrote you love letters. You can vastly increase the chances
Speaker 1: of that happening by giving your other half a stamped
Speaker 1: an addressed envelope. Hopefully they are not so dense that
Speaker 1: they won't understand why you are doing that. Now. My
Speaker 1: particular kid who is going to camp isn't necessarily much
Speaker 1: of a writer, and I'm kind of curious what the
Speaker 1: cards he's going to send me will say. Perhaps not much,
Speaker 1: but I know in the absence of addressed, stamped envelopes
Speaker 1: there probably wouldn't be any communication, so I am happy
Speaker 1: to send them along. In the meantime, This is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of
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