Going Postal

Anytime I have an idea I think could be original, I scrub the internet to see if anyone has beaten me to the punch. As the saying goes, "There is nothing new under the sun". Yet during my last search, I could not find anything that represent my full idea. If you think it is something that should be created, please let me know or comment so I don't think I'm crazy.

With each passing day, week, month, and year, the US grows more and more polarized with the idea that a majority of our representatives may not truly represent their voting population and their interests. This idea, I believe, could be a step in solving this issue.

We, as an individual, can call, email, or mail a letter to our local, state, and federal representatives but not yet as a collective. My idea is to create a new non-profit organization to do so.

It would be a website with some name (Ex: TheMightyPen.com) where you could select your state and then county within said state. The site would provide you with the contact information (phone, email, and mailing address) for your local, state, and federal representatives. Now, there are sites that already do this but here is the twist.

The site would let you call and email directly from the contact page (you'd make an account with this non-profit) and as humans have the choice, these representatives could just ignore or decline emails and phone calls. Here is my favorite part. The site would also allow you to type up a letter and send it to this non-profit's headquarters and we would print out the letter and mail it for you, all you have to do is type. It's a lot harder to ignore an issue or problem with representing interests if you have 10,000 physical letters all saying the same thing.

This would also allow people (like me) who are on the lazier side of life and always come up with excuses of "What's the point?", "I don't want to buy stamps.", and "It's too much work for a small to no payoff." to do something other than sit and complain. All you would have to do is type up a letter and click a button where we could then mail the physical letter for you. This could be a new form of grassroots lobbying and could help people from all over the country and potentially the world to have a more effective approach to dealing with representatives only representing themselves and their pockets.

I do not know all the things it takes to create a non-profit and currently do not have enough money to start this on my own as well as not knowing potential investors. If you think this could be a good idea or have a tweak to suggest, please let me know. I think this could be a very cool and modern solution to some of the issues that continue to manifest before us.