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This is cool, but others with more experience in the field have already figured out how to best deliver messages to congress. See the "How it works" section: h

This is cool, but others with more experience in the field have already figured out how to best deliver messages to congress. See the "How it works" section: http://heritageaction.com/grow/using-popvox-email-congress/ http://heritageaction.com/grow/using-popvox-email-congress/ > Unlike electronic mail, which is both free to send and easy to ignore, receiving a postcard sends its own message. It says to the congressperson, "I feel strongly enough about this to go to the expense of sending an actual card." No. A postcard will never make it to the congressperson. It will be read by a staffer and most likely tossed unless it expresses support or opposition for a current issue or bill, in which case it will be tallied and then tossed in the garbage.

meej 14y ago
Plus, it will take a very long time to get to that staffer. Ever since Congress went through the anthrax scares a decade ago, their snail-mail is highly scrutinized, which slows down delivery.
- simonw 14y ago
  Maybe postcards get through the process faster than letters? They should be easier to check.
- marcidale 14y ago
  That's why we deliver messages via POPVOX electronically.
slurgfest 14y ago
Driving traffic to a heavily partisan website and suggesting that people should not write postcards but rather route their messages through this heavily partisan organization to be discarded electronically if the Heritage Foundation does not see fit to censor them - this is not a helpful reply at all.
- marcidale 14y ago
  See above. Heritage is using a POPVOX iFrame widget. They have no control over the messages. It all feeds into the POPVOX system and we deliver the messages to Congress. If you would like to weigh in on any bill in Congress (or pick up a widget to use on your own site) you can do so on POPVOX: http://popvox.com http://popvox.com
marcidale 14y ago
Hi all - I'm a former Congressional staffer and a co-founder of POPVOX. We built POPVOX precisely because of the ineffectiveness of so many other methods. Heritage Action is using a POPVOX widget -- any site can do the same. https://www.popvox.com/services/widgets https://www.popvox.com/services/widgets Yes, organizations that conduct grassroots campaigns are frequently partisan, but POPVOX is absolutely NOT. We are just a platform for getting messages to Congress and providing a transparent record of what Congress is hearing. We work very closely with Congressional offices to make sure messages go in in the best way possible -- with a 100% delivery guarantee. If for any reason it doesn't go electronically (99.5 % do), we print it out and hand deliver. You can see when you message is delivered on your POPVOX home page. In July, House Democrats announced that POPVOX info is now feeding directly into their internal staff intranet via APIs. http://www.democraticwhip.gov/content/whip-hoyer-announces-house-democrats-adoption-new-online-tool-hear-citizens-and-organization http://www.democraticwhip.gov/content/whip-hoyer-announces-h... We're working to make that a bipartisan, bicameral thing.

meej 14y ago

Plus, it will take a very long time to get to that staffer. Ever since Congress went through the anthrax scares a decade ago, their snail-mail is highly scrutinized, which slows down delivery.

simonw 14y ago
Maybe postcards get through the process faster than letters? They should be easier to check.
marcidale 14y ago
That's why we deliver messages via POPVOX electronically.

slurgfest 14y ago

Driving traffic to a heavily partisan website and suggesting that people should not write postcards but rather route their messages through this heavily partisan organization to be discarded electronically if the Heritage Foundation does not see fit to censor them - this is not a helpful reply at all.

marcidale 14y ago
See above. Heritage is using a POPVOX iFrame widget. They have no control over the messages. It all feeds into the POPVOX system and we deliver the messages to Congress. If you would like to weigh in on any bill in Congress (or pick up a widget to use on your own site) you can do so on POPVOX: http://popvox.com http://popvox.com

marcidale 14y ago

Hi all - I'm a former Congressional staffer and a co-founder of POPVOX. We built POPVOX precisely because of the ineffectiveness of so many other methods. Heritage Action is using a POPVOX widget -- any site can do the same. https://www.popvox.com/services/widgets https://www.popvox.com/services/widgets Yes, organizations that conduct grassroots campaigns are frequently partisan, but POPVOX is absolutely NOT. We are just a platform for getting messages to Congress and providing a transparent record of what Congress is hearing. We work very closely with Congressional offices to make sure messages go in in the best way possible -- with a 100% delivery guarantee. If for any reason it doesn't go electronically (99.5 % do), we print it out and hand deliver. You can see when you message is delivered on your POPVOX home page. In July, House Democrats announced that POPVOX info is now feeding directly into their internal staff intranet via APIs. http://www.democraticwhip.gov/content/whip-hoyer-announces-house-democrats-adoption-new-online-tool-hear-citizens-and-organization http://www.democraticwhip.gov/content/whip-hoyer-announces-h... We're working to make that a bipartisan, bicameral thing.