From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   I have a question, and it might be a dopey one.   
      
   A couple months ago, I submitted a ms. to a magazine that only accepted paper   
   manuscripts, and it was probably the only place I'd want to send it that   
   didn't take electronic submission.  So I typed THIS MANUSCRIPT IS DISPOSABLE   
   on it and didn't include a    
   return envelope with stamps on it.  I haven't done this very often in the   
   past, told them to throw out the ms.   
      
   An assistant editor sent me a letter in an envelope, with the address from the   
   masthead of the manuscript scrawled across it, that said, "Include a SASE next   
   time."   
      
   This was totally unexpected for me, because I think that a decade ago, I'd pay   
   to return the manuscript, and they'd mail me a rejection slip in a little   
   envelope.  Is this my imagination?  Has it always been normal to include   
   postage and stationery for    
   your own rejection slips?   
      
   I know this makes me sound mental, but I hadn't submitted anything on paper   
   for maybe 8 years before that.   
      
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