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So, I am a candidate to use this if I care enough but an issue to mail my representatives but either

1. I do not know who they are.

2. I do not have a way to commit my words to paper and mail them to the representatives.

I don't say that there aren't people who will find this convenient, but it seems a narrow market.

@sblom got it right, the site solves both problems. The congress person will know you are a constituent based upon the home address you provide. (it will be on the outside of the letter as the return address but also on the inside under your name identifying you as a constituent)

However, the same problem exists with regular mail. If somebody wanted to provide a bogus home address they could. There is no real way for us to validate you are who you say you are. And there will be some people that have a different billing address and name information on their credit cards than their home address so I didn't want to validate based upon that.

The web site takes care of problem #1. And maybe I'm completely misunderstanding you, but it seems like it's entirely about solving problem #2.

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