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by prasincs 5055 days ago
That's a great idea. I think the act of sending paper mail feels rather tedious to those accustomed to using emails, IMs often. People are more likely to use a tool like this if it meant attention to issues. From the perspective of the senators, seeing a stack of 10,000 paper letters is much more tangible than say, 10,000 emails or petitions on a webpage. Now someone needs to make it :)
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Ok, to show how this might look, I've done the following:

http://fjunkmail.com/?senators=true

(it's hidden away unless you pass senators=true)

What do you think? Should something like this be on its own mini site? Ideas for a name?

That is great! Probably put the name on the same line as the hello.

Possible site names could be 'stopbadpolicy.<whatever>' or 'tell-your-congress-critter.com' or LetWashingtonKnow.com or even VoiceOfThePeople.com

Clearly .com or .org or most tlds would work.

As soon as its up I'll send another letter to my senators to ask them to force the TSA to follow the law.

This is an excellent idea. I am adding this RIGHT NOW as a show for how it 'could' be, but should probably become a separate site. I'll reply back when it is live.