Peanuts by Charles Schulz for July 20, 2022

“It was a dark and stormy reply!”

“Return to sender” (The King)

So by process of elimination they need you to send manuscripts by second class mail to suit their needs.

There was a story arc about Snoopy going into rejection slip shock.

I read about a man in Idaho who tried to get on every junk-mailing list he could. What he did was to roll up all the junk-mail after sorting through it. And then he would put it all in his wood stove. Thus heating his house for free, courtesy of the U.S. Mail and the junk-mail people. And he did the almost every day, as he got a lot of junk-mail.

Ouch !

Mail now travels by plane

Not only rejected but zinged as well!

I get mail from every charity known to the world. If you give to one, your name winds up on every list. I also get a lot of political junk mail since I vote in EVERY election, even special elections.

I live in a white, affluent neighborhood. And since, as a male, I am the “head of household,” I get a lot of right wing political mail asking me to fill in a survey and include fat check. NRA, Republican Party, Judicial Watch, some group wanting me to support 100 “Christian” Candidates for Congress and the like.

I’ve seen many a rejection letter in my life, but this is the first one where it’s openly called junk mail.

Snoopy, maybe you should poke a hole in that letter so you can hold it closer to your eyes.

Keep your chin up, Snoopster! Every great artist faces rejection and criticism. :D

OUCH!

Nowadays even the form letters have attitude…

“Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? It took me years to write, will you take a look?” (The Beatles)

Poor Snoopy.

Nice mail-burn.

Simon Cowell’s father must have composed that rejection letter!

ouch

The publisher is clearly insensitive.

Typewriter ribbons are getting hard to find. You should be saving yours for more important projects.

When the rejection letter is a form letter, it’s time to give up writing and take up flying. WW I needs flying aces. No experience required.

YOUCH!

I’ve always thought people who send out form rejection letters deserve prison sentences.

Such heartless wretches.

can’t win them all, can you, Snoops?

“Any attempts to contact us further will be handled by law enforcement “

There was an elderly lady who lived on a route I once had. She thought it was her job to reply to all the junk mail. This in turn generated more junk mail. One day I decided to count the number of junk letters, and came up with the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

And – I’m ready to start sending out my novel; looking for a publisher. That is not helpful!

Rubbing salt into Snoopy’d wounds…..CRUEL.

They’re going to regret that postscript when his book gets published in twenty years.

Mail goes by planes

If not for online retailing, the postal service were almost be solely reliant on junk mail.

Ouch!!!