Identikit mailings on real bits of paper possibly have some impact, though far less than individual letters I am sure.

As email I suspect they have virtually no effect exceopt to annoy.

And it's so simple to write what you want to say in your own words.

No need even to go into the rights and wrongs of it.

"I like to be able to take part in informal folkmusic sessions in pubs when I go on holiday. I have heard that Weymouth Council has a policy that makes it hard to have such sessions. So I won't be going to Weymouth for my holidays until this policy has been changed, though I have heard that otherwise it is a very pleasant place." For example.