I suspect this may significantly depend on the quality of your handwriting. I'm just old enough to believe that handwritten is more polite in theory, but in pra

I suspect this may significantly depend on the quality of your handwriting. I'm just old enough to believe that handwritten is more polite in theory, but in practice I'd probably send an email, or print out a typed letter and then initial it. They can't tell if I was being nice if they can't read what I wrote, after all :)