Sample Letters Help You Start Writing Letters June 27, 2009

Do you ever want or need to write a few letters to someone, but have trouble getting started?   Do you have family, friends or business colleagues you just want to stay in touch with, but get writers block and struggle to even get a letter started?

Let iwiLetter.com help you get started with one of our Sample Letters.  You can choose a sample letter and edit it as much or as little as you need to personalize it, or you can just send the sample letter to your recipient as-is and be done with it.

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We have a number of different sample letter categories, and a number of sample letters available within each category.

Choose from our: Love Letters, Thank You Letters, Job Application Letters, Business Letters, Rejection Letters, Birthday Letters, Legal Letters, Complaint Letters, Pen Pal Letters.

Also, please feel free to Submit Your Own Letters that we can make available as Sample Letters for others to read and use!  Just click HERE to submit your letters (dis-regard the Love Letter format, we’ll receive your letter and put it into it’s appropriate category).

Send someone a letter today, send them an iwiLetter!  Get started with our Sample Letters.

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Send Real Letters, Write Online April 29, 2009

What is iwiLetter?

iwiLetter.com is the quick and easy way to send a real letter right from your computer.  Write & send a real letter from anywhere you have a computer with Internet access.  Just visit http://iwiLetter.com and type your letter, we’ll handle the rest; we’ll print it on recycled paper and envelopes, stuff it, stamp it with a real First-Class U.S. stamp, and drop it in the mail, all for $2.00.   It’s quick, convenient and fun!  Send friends, family, or business colleagues real snail mail letters without leaving home.

Why use iwiLetter?

• Don’t have stamps or envelopes lying around?  Write an iwiLetter! 
• Bad hand-writing?  Send an iwiLetter! 
• Business Traveller stuck in a hotel room with a laptop but no stamps of envelopes?  Write an iwiLetter! 
• Are you a Small Business owner but don’t have the time to stuff and lick envelopes, or the money to pay someone to do it for you?  Mail your customers an iwiLetter! 
• College Student looking to write home or to Grandma?  Send an iwiLetter! 
• Family Members looking to keep others aware of updates and new announcements (babies, weddings, anniversaries, etc.)?  Send them an iwiLetter!
• Do you simply want to make a more professional or memorable impact on someone than email?  Write them an iwiLetter.  Imagine the message you’ll communicate when they check their mailbox and find a letter To: Them, From: You!

iwiLetter Features:

• We provide Sample Letters to make it quick and easy to get started.  Click HERE to let us help you start writing. 
• Calendar Feature – Write your iwiLetter now, but pick a future date for it to be printed and mailed automatically. 
• Save all of your previously sent letters and addresses in your address book.  Easily edit or re-write and mail letters to your contacts. 
• We use only recycled paper and envelopes. 

 

Go ahead, right now while you’re thinking about it, Send Someone an iwiLetter now!

 

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Help Wanted: March 10, 2009

Help Wanted:

 

In these tough economic times there are more than a few folks out there looking for these Help Wanted signs, looking for a job.  Well, iwiLetter.com could use your help!  We can’t offer you a job, per-se, but we do want help and you could provide help in a big way, helping us get the good word about iwiLetter.com out there. 

 

If you have a blog maybe you could blog about iwiLetter, or write an article about iwiLetter, or just follow our blog (http://iwiLetter.wordpress.com) and add us to your blogroll.  Link to us!

 

For all you folks on Twitter, send a Tweet out to your followers, let them know about the quick and easy way to send a letter online.  Follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/iwiLetter)

 

For the 175 million of you Facebook users out there, drop a note about iwLetter.com to your friends, or become a friend and/or fan on iwiLetter’s Facebook page.  MySpace, same thing. 

 

Tell a friend about iwiLetter.  Tell them about our sweet MadLetter Generator, it’s free to create, use, and play our MadLetters!

 

Last but not least, perhaps you could just reach out to a friend, family member or colleague….by sending them a Letter!  Remember how nice it was last time you went to your mailbox and found a letter “To: You”, “From: Someone you know”?  It was nice to get that, read it, and re-read the letter, wasn’t it?  Reach out and send that same envelope of joy and excitement to someone you know or love!

 

Send an iwiLetter Now!

 

 

Send Real “Snail” Mail From Your Computer January 29, 2009

iwiLetter.com encourages you to send “snail mail” to your friends, family, and business colleagues.  Really, it’s real physical snail mail, mail sent by actual snails!  Boredom Research has created “RealSnailMail” http://www.boredomresearch.net/rsm/index.html, a service (ok, maybe “experiment” is a more accurate word than “service”) where little snails are equipped with a tiny electronic cicruit and antenna that receives messages.  Users type a message right from their computer, that message is transmitted to one of several different snails, and then the waiting begins.  Then the waiting continues, and continues.  The waiting lasts until the snail finds it’s way across it’s living space to a “drop off” dispatch center receiver where the message is then electronically retrieved and sent along it’s way to the recipients email inbox. 

 

What a novel concept, snail mail moving at a snail’s pace!  You see, iwiLetter.com is not the only one out there using technology to make snail mail a reality for all of us in this increasingly fast paced and technical world. 

Check out more innovative projects by Boredom Research at BoredomResearch.net

 

 

 

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How to Write a Letter October 29, 2008

 

Sometimes you know you may need or want to send a letter to family member, friend or a business, but getting started or understanding the different components and aspects of writing a letter may not be clear to you.  Wikihow.com provides a great general summary of “How to write a letter”. 
 
In the age of e-mail and cell phones, writing a letter may seem like an ancient ritual that is only practiced by those of earlier generations, but there are many personal and professional rewards to sitting down and expressing yourself with a written letter. Whether writing a quick note to a friend to say hello or composing a business letter to an authority figure, writing a letter shows effort, respect and care for others.  Wikihow.com provides a great general summary of “How to write a letter”
 
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Letter
 

1. Provide the context of the letter. Put all the information that the reader will want to know at the beginning of the letter, before you even begin to write the body. If you’re writing to a close friend, you won’t need much except the date, which will be good for if they save your letter and want to remember when they received it. If you’re writing a business letter, on the other hand, the reader may not even know who wrote the letter (if an assistant threw the envelopes away before passing along the letters). The arrangement of this information depends on what kind of letter you’re writing, but as long as you provide it neatly and completely, you should be fine:
   • Your address, sometimes including contact information; some people prefer to write this out at the bottom of the letter, under the signature and printed name. This can also go at the top as letterhead.
   • The recipient’s name, address, contact information; in business letters, this can be referred to as the “inside address”; if you don’t know the recipient’s title (Ms., Mrs., Mr., or Dr.) err on the side of caution–use Ms. or Dr. if you think it might apply;use your country’s address format; if the inside address is in a country other than yours, write their country’s name in capital letters as the last line.
   • The date
   • A subject line, usually beginning with “RE:” (e.g. RE: Graduation application #4487)
2. Start with a proper greeting. The opening should begin at the left side of the page, not the middle or up against the right side of the sheet. The most common opening is “Dear” followed by the person’s first name and a comma. For a more casual greeting, you can write “Hello (name),” or “Hey (name),” but if the letter is more formal, use the recipient’s last name and a colon instead of a comma (e.g. “Dear Mr. Johnson:”. Sometimes, if you don’t know the recipient’s name, you can write “To Whom It May Concern:” If you don’t know the person’s gender, write out their full name (e.g. Dear Ashley Johnson:).
3. Write an opening paragraph. Tailor your opening to the recipient. For example, if the letter is casual, you can begin with, “What’s up?” or “How’s it going?”. Otherwise, a simple “How are you?” is fine. If it is a business letter, go straight to explaining why you are writing the letter. Summarize your intentions and be sure to write clearly so the reader will understand you.
4. Construct the body of the letter. This is the part that will really be unique to each letter. Most business letters should be no more than two pages long, but casual letters can be as long or as short as you want them to be. No matter who you’re writing to, try not to ramble. Keep each paragraph engaging.
5. Use the closing paragraph to indicate the type of response you are seeking. If you would like a letter in return, you can write, “Please write when you have a chance” or, if you prefer a phone call/email, write “Call me soon.” or “Email me some time”.
6. Include a closing such as “Love always” ,”Cheers”, “Sincerely”, “Talk soon”, or “Look forward to seeing you soon”. Again, choose your closing based on the recipient. The closing can be aligned on the left or the right side of the page. In business letters, stick with “Regards,” or “Respectfully,” and sign your name underneath. Then print your name under the signature.
7. Address your envelope. Your address should be written on the front of the envelope in the upper left hand corner or on the back. The recipient’s address must be on the front of the envelope, right in the middle. Fold your letter in any way you would like, but just be sure that it will fit into the envelope. Put your letter in the envelope, seal it, stamp it and send it off.  <– iwiLetter.com will handle this part of it for you

 
Wikihow.com also provides specific information and instructions to follow when writing specific kinds of letters, whether they are Complaint Letters, Business Letters, Personal Letters, Job Resignation Letters, etc.  For example:
 
Complaint Letters
There is no reason for consumers to be unhappy with the goods and services they receive. A respectful and thoughtful, though forceful, Complaint Letter/letter of grievance can turn a lemon into lemonade. How to do it is covered here, covering things like:
-Be polite! Being rude won’t get you anywhere.
-Keep on point and get to the point fast.
-State specifically what outcome or remedy you want.
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Complaint-Letter-to-a-Company
 

Job Resignation Letters
One of the greatest secrets of career success is knowing when to move on. With the right resignation letter, you will do so with satisfaction and leave on good terms with your previous employer.  For example:
-Say thank you. Resist the temptation to leave a piece of your mind.
-Give proper notice. It is simple courtesy.Wikihow also gives Tips and Warnings to following when writing a Resignation Letter, for example:
-Do not discuss your resignation with co-workers.
-Keep any emotion out of the letter. Avoid the temptation to tell off your boss, spreading mistrust, etc. 
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Resignation-Letter

Letters to Government Officials
Wikihow.com even provides a  ‘How To’ guide on Writing a Letter to a Government Official.  How often have we been advised to ‘write our Congressmen’ when we’re up to our armpits in some sort of dilemma or challenge such as mammoth-sized pot-holes, funky school lunches, or runaway drug costs for senior citizens? So now you’ve decided to take action and ask for help from your Uncle Sam (or local Alderman). Good for you, let’s get started!
http://www.wikihow.com/Address-a-Letter-to-a-Government-Official

Well, there’s some How, Why, and Who about writing and sending letters.  Let’s get started writing letters now!  iwLetter.com not only provides the quick and easy way to send a real letter online, we also provide Sample Letters to help you get started! http://iwiletter.com/loadsampleletter.html
 
 
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Send a Letter, Make it Official! June 25, 2008

Dealing with business issues, credit or tax issues, rental correspondence, or formal complaints? Send a letter, and make a more official statement. Phone calls and emails are easily ignored or deleted. Letters make a statement and impact.

 

Consider the last time you received a jury summons or court sopaena. It came as a letter, and you paid attention to it didn’t you? Coincidence? What about that IRS audit you got in the mail….you opened it and took action, right? When you want to get in touch with the Editor of your local newspaper, you sent a letter to the Editor, right? How about that $30,000 loan you just found out you are all of a sudden approved for, came as a letter right? And how did you find out whether or not you were getting an IRS Rebate check this year…..well, at least the first couple million of you until they realized mailing out a hundred million letters just to inform us about a forthercoming check cost a lot of money. Anyway, they sent out letters, didn’t they?

 

Emails just get deleted or lost in the sea of your thousands of other emails. Voice mails and phone calls just interupt you in the middle meeting, or you end up being “that guy” with the bluetooth ear piece walking around making everyone think you are talking to them. Face to face conversations only end with an awkward pause, or one person telling the other to go do something.

 

You’ve heard of the “poor man’s copyright”, right?  If you write a song, a story, a poem, or anything you want to copyright and be able to legally show that you created it on or before a certain date, just simply mail the lyrics, CD, tape or whatever it is to yourself via the US Postal Service and leave it un-opened. The Postmark Date will be on the envelope and will show that you created it’s contents on or before that date.

 

Next time you have something important to communicate, send them a real letter. Send them an iwiLetter!

 

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Remember When? March 25, 2008

Remember years ago when it used to be exciting when you got an email?  You sat down at your computer and it told you, “you’ve got mail”, and you said, “oh man look, someone sent me an email!”  You couldn’t wait to open, read and respond to it.  It was exciting, it was fun, it was new.  However, time has passed, and the number of emails you now get every day has grown unmanageable.  What used to be cool and fun to get, now becomes, “oh no!  ANOTHER email I need to deal with”.  And this is AFTER you have all your spam and junk mail siphoned off.

Later in the day, you head out to your mailbox to see if your new Netflix has arrived.  Yo get your mail and start going through it, “bill, bill, Netflix, credit card offer, credit card offer, Chinese menu, bill, bill, LETTER – to: ME, from: SOMEONE I KNOW!”  That’s the first thing you open up!  It’s then that you remember that you LOVE getting a letter from someone, and you realize that it’s as simple as sending a letter to give someone else that same feeling of being loved, remembered, cared for, thought about, in love with, felt worthy of, important enough, etc. to send them a letter.

To say something in a letter; it just communicates more love to a family member or lover, shows more thought to someone that’s been on your mind lately, creates more worth and value to an important customer, thanks someone more deeply, or commands more importance to a business colleague.  And yes, a Letter will make you seem smarter than you really are!

OK, so you want to send someone a letter and give them that same joy you just experienced.  Do you have a stamp lying around?  What about an envelope?  You know stamp prices keep going up, right?  Are the stamps you have still the right price?  Are you going to hand write this letter?  Can YOU read your own handwriting?  Will someone else be able to?  OK, so let’s type and print a letter…..oh wait, your printer doesn’t have anymore ink does it? 

Well, you’re already sitting at your computer.  Go ahead and visit iwiLetter.com, where you can “send real letters, write online”.  That’s right, just visit iwiLetter.com and type your letter, we’ll handle the rest.  We’ll print, stuff, stamp and mail your letter anywhere in the US!  We even have a growing collection of sample letters (Love Letters, Thank You Letters, Business Letters, Happy Birthday Letters, etc) to help you get started writing!

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