Efficiency 101

This is a tip for sending lots of emails to the officials listed in the previous post (over and over again if you have to) so you can inundate the politicians on the list.  This will save you a lot of work with all the copying and pasting and retyping things over and over.

We need to make some noise and demand to be heard.

I work on a Mac, but this should be pretty similar on a PC:

Write your email.  Address the letter to the person BY NAME.  This will increase the chance that they actually read it carefully (of course all politicians read eeeeverything, right?).  Hit send and watch it go!  

Now, go to your Sent Email box and select the email you just sent, then follow the directions below.

• Go to the "Message" menu at the top menubar and select: Message > Send Again (in Entourage: it says "Resend").  This will open a NEW version of the message.

• Delete the address in the "To:" field.  Enter the new address (you can copy and paste it from my last blog post).  Do the same with their name in the email body - delete, copy, paste.

• Hit send.  Done.  Move on to the next name.  Repeat as necessary.  Do it until you get a satisfactory answer from them.  Don't settle for a form letter.

Repeating the same email to the same address:

• If you need to email the letter to the same address, just find your previous email and select Message > Send Again.  It takes all of 2 seconds to send the letter again.

Presto - instantly fill the inbox of any politician!