12-22-2009, 11:38 AM
devalcourt Wrote:Wow, are people really at the point of selling anything? Either it didn't mean that much to the recipient, which makes him/her the worst kind of hypocrite, or "thank you" letters from the Karelian Ministry of Education are about as significant as toilet paper to bears.:(
Phillip
The fancy piece of paper is probably not the important thing for the person who got it.
Recently, related to this Christmas thing, I gave some 30 USD to a charity organisation to buy a goat to a family in Africa. As a "thank-you" I received a postcard depicting a goat. Now, we are flooded with all kind of paperwork garbage that pours in through mailbox, so it went rather straight into the recycling bin. The important is the money that was given to buy the goat, and in a way I think they could have spent the 2-3 USD cost used to print and ship that postcard on some food for the goat; and sent the thank-you notice by email.
