That’s the way the footer ran at the end of my syndicated column back in 1975. SASE was understood by everyone back then as denoting a Self-Addressed Stamped (return) Envelope.
Then some
time in the 1980s, I added “or toedithlank@aol.com.” These days the kids just chuckle and tell me
AOL is so last-century, but back then offering an e-mail address was
super-modern and my pioneering innovation was featured in a national magazine.
More recently,
the footer has simply read “will answer personally any question sent to
www.askedith.com.” According to the young friend
who set it up, Google credits me two cents every time anyone clicks on that web
site. Last year I received a check for
$200 and if 10,000 more people ever click on it again I’ll receive another
check. Pretty exciting, but a clear case
of “better not quit your day job.”
So what I’m
leading up to –
After I
started this blog, which is supposedly aimed at Old Persons, I discovered that
most of the responses come from what I consider Young Persons. Clearly there’s still a cohort out there
that isn’t on computers. So I added my
snail-mail address to the column just a month ago and behold -- the postman is
leaving real letters, just as in the old days. And these are from people who know enough to
enclose the SASE even though it isn’t mentioned. 
AND they don’t
print either. It’s real handwriting!
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