On 08/03/2012 14:41, David Durant wrote:
This was discussed at the last Open Rights Group meeting in association with potentially sending letters to MPs about ACTA. There are at least a couple of issues. Firstly that MPs will have at least a (private) home address and, probably, a constituency office address. Some work from a number of different places. We didn't know of any mechanism to get hold of these addresses. Secondly, do we really want to put a mechanism in place to allow organisations like 38 Degrees to letter-spam-bomb MPs at their constituent address in such a way as it would be difficult to filter out constituents in genuine need? I'm sure this will have been discussed at mySociety before.
Even constituents (whether in genuine need or not!) are encouraged to send letters to the Commons address. Given that the price of a stamp is the same either way, there really isn't any point sending posted material anywhere else. When the House is sitting, MPs will get mail addressed to them at the Commons more quickly than post sent anywhere else, and when they're not at the House it will be forwarded to them.
The constituency office address is, possibly slightly counter-intuitively, normally used for party correspondence rather than public correspondence, precisely because it's outside the official communication stream.
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