However, in an attempt to let my students taste the experience of getting business mail, I still do a once-a-term assignment. Following the lead from our text about routine requests, each student finds a newspaper advertisement containing a mailing address. They write a standard business letter requesting at least three items of additional information. In this way, we get a chance to see how various businesses respond.
I bought postage for about twenty envelopes today.
(I would welcome a personal thank-you from anyone working for Canada Post, but only email, please!)