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February 05, 2003
FaxYourMP
A few facts about FaxYourMP.com:
- The service has delivered almost 50,000 faxes from constituents to MPs
- Marketing spend to date: 0 GBP
- Marketing to date: 1 Press Release sent to friends, (December 2000)
(That said, I'm not sure that anyone would trust faxes sent via FaxYourMP.gov.uk to get through. Sure, they'd say that your fax was received, but they would, wouldn't they...)
[Via Boing Boing]
Posted by John at February 5, 2003 09:26 PM
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It's a thoroughly disappointing experience, to be honest.
I spent ages writing a letter to my MP and went through the process of sending it, only to be told that I couldn't do it.
Instead, they gave me his address at Westminster, and suggested I print it out and post it to him.
What a load of mince.
Posted by: Martin at February 7, 2003 10:00 PM
I can certainly see that it would be better for the site to identify your MP earlier in the process so the site could tell you if it didn't have a working fax number/email address for that member before you went to the trouble of writing a letter they couldn't send on your behalf.
The last time I used the site it had no problem emailing my comments on the "entitlement" card proposals to the Home Office, but it had problems faxing a copy of my comments to my MP because he turned out not to have a working fax. I don't hold that against FaxYourMP, though: they did what they could with the information available to them.
Posted by: John at February 7, 2003 10:48 PM