[underseacables]

Similarly there is a phenomenal company called HandWrytten. It uses robots to write thank you cards with ink pens. I upload a spreadsheet of all of my contacts, with a message for each, and the robot beautifully writes out the card in my own handwriting; personal hand writing is an extra fee. Takes about an hour for 155 contacts.

I keep up with hundreds of people in my job and something personal like this really goes a long way.

https://www.handwrytten.com/

[causi]

From one perspective that's quite thoughtful. From another that's going to significant lengths to deceive your customers into thinking it's much more thoughtful than it is.

[mehphp]

Not disagreeing with you, but isn't that what a lot of advertising does?

[causi]

Yes it is, and most of advertising is also immoral. We're not shareholders in his company so hearing about how he fools his customers into thinking he cares more than he does is a bad thing.

[joshstrange]

Expect it's not personal at all... it's just a lie that fools a good number of people. I absolutely hate these types of letters because it's easy to see them for what they really are, a trick to invoke a completely un-earned emotional response.

[JustARandomGuy]

I've received thank you cards like this (I volunteer for certain well-regarded organizations). While the thank you card is very nice, the fake "handwritten" part is obvious - the strokes of the pen are a little too clean, too precise to be a human. A human tends to smudge some characters, or some characters will be squeezed in - the robotic handwriting never does that, so it's an obvious giveaway.

Don't get me wrong, receiving a personalized letter is very much appreciated and I appreciate it more because they put extra thought in it, but very few would think of it as actually handwritten by a human.

[Wistar]

Maybe something more along the lines of this AI handwriting generator?

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html

[lupire]

This stuff is terrible. I'm paying charities to do good work, no do deceptive marketing stunts.

[csw-001]

This is cool technology, but I think this misses the value of the thank you card in the first place - that you gave the time and attention to each card (and by proxy, person). I guess I wonder without that expense to you, what is the value of the card to them (it's not the literal message, or the card stock)?

Then again, I often aspire to send cards and don't, so this is definitely better than nothing, especially if you personalized the messages.

[burkaman]

Why not just type the letters and print them normally? Do you think you gain something when recipients mistakenly believe you wrote them by hand?

[kthejoker2]

They have Jefferson's polygraph at the Smithsonian, an idea before its time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph_(duplicating_device)

[space_ghost]

My mom made extra money in the '90s doing the manual version of that. She'd pick up a stack of pages with som company's letterhead, a template, and a list of names, and then proceed to hand-write hundreds of nearly identical letters.