From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 31, 2014 7:53:09 PM UTC+1, William Vetter wrote:   
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   > > >> On Sunday, August 31, 2014 12:14:52 PM UTC+1, William Vetter wrote:   
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   > > >>> I have a question, and it might be a dopey one.   
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   > > >>> 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.   
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   > > >>> 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."   
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   > > >>> 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   
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   stationery for your own rejection slips?   
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   > > >> I guess they'd go bankrupt if you didn't? It's why I only really do   
   esubs because organising return postage to the UK was just too awkward.   
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   > > >> I don't know much about it however for that reason.   
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   > > > You mean postal reply coupons?   
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   > > > I did that once, fifteen years ago.   
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   > > I used to get friends to send me US stamps. Most publishers can't be    
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   > > bothered with International Reply Coupons. I still have a rather strange    
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   > > collection of USian stamps in various strange denominations to make up    
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   > > the value of ever-changing reply envelopes.   
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   > > You could also buy American stamps via the web - not sure if you still can.   
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   > Or I can walk to the post office to buy them.   
      
   I don't think they sell them in UK post offices?   
      
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