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       when staff helps with the correspondence.
       By: TootsNYC Date: March 25, 2019, 11:02 am
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       Barack Obama wrote a note to Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez
       to congratulate them on their engagement.
       A-Rod posted it to Instagram and Twitter. (If you're famous, you
       have to be ready for this to happen to the letters you send, but
       I kind of think it's "not done" to publicize private
       correspondence like this.)
       The handwriting on the envelope is different. And there's no
       address.
       I'm wondering if a secretary (or Michelle?) grabbed a bunch of
       stationery and wrote the names from the "write them a note
       today" list, and then handed off the stack; the envelopes would
       serve as the reminder of who it was, so he wouldn't have to look
       back and forth.
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       Re: when staff helps with the correspondence.
       By: TeamBhakta Date: March 25, 2019, 11:08 am
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       I don't fault celebrities for having someone else pen their
       autographs & congratulatory notes. They're busy. Shoot, I don't
       even expect the apology letter / email I get back from a cereal
       company to literally be from their CEO, despite the name at the
       bottom of it  ;D
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       Re: when staff helps with the correspondence.
       By: OnyxBird Date: March 25, 2019, 11:57 am
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       I guess I'm a bit confused why the different hand-writing on the
       envelopen would be an issue or surprising. Having someone else
       keep track of your to-do list (including what correspondence
       needs to be sent on what date) and take menial, impersonal tasks
       like filling out envelopes off your plate seems like a classic
       and perfectly appropriate use of an assistant, whether for a
       celebrity or simply a busy private citizen who can afford to
       employ one.
       To me, different handwriting on the note versus the envelope
       makes it seem more likely that the note was actually written by
       Obama, since farming out the mindless labor of addressing
       envelopes or keeping track of what letters need to be sent today
       makes more sense than farming out writing the notes while
       addressing the envelopes oneself.
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       Re: when staff helps with the correspondence.
       By: Twik Date: March 25, 2019, 12:26 pm
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       I really don't think Barack Obama hand-addresses all his
       correspondence. He'd do nothing else all day.
       And I'm wondering whether the envelop was inside an outer one?
       While it's possible it got popped into the mail by mistake
       before the address was completed, and the post-office cleverly
       figured out who "Jennifer and Alex" were, it strikes me as an
       "intermediate" envelope.
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       Re: when staff helps with the correspondence.
       By: Lula Date: March 25, 2019, 2:41 pm
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       Since you have so much free time, would you mind cleaning my
       car? ;)
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       Re: when staff helps with the correspondence.
       By: TootsNYC Date: March 25, 2019, 3:04 pm
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       Oh, I'm not complaining--I think it was fine. I just noticed it.
       (Not everything people post about it a complaint)
       and I agree, I bet that inner envelope was tucked into a larger
       one, maybe even FedEx.
       I thought it was a fun window into how someone like Mr. Obama
       would handle his correspondence.
       I like the correspondence card, and the idea that he ONLY wrote
       two sentences. But the second one was very personal, not
       boilerplate.
       I think it could be a good model, and a reminder that you can
       write something meaningful without having to write something
       long.
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