I disagree. In fact, the whole point of the postcard campaign is to do something OTHER than form letters, which are generally ignored. Postcard campaigns like this have been done in the past and been very successful. I should have mentioned this in the column, but AWARE is also sending a few delegates to Washington to speak directly with Obama in January, and we will physically take some of the postcards we get with us then. I think getting a bag full of handwritten postcards would not be thrown away precisely because they see that each person has written unique words and whether or not they read them, that many postcards, because they each look similar, will really hit them because of the sheer amount of them (we already have nearly 600). However, thanks for you criticisms. It would be nice if you could offer something constructive in the future.