Posted letters face two disadvantages: they rob longer to reach on our desk than an email and they either believe to be typed up or scanned in by us to be publishedToday we live in a fast-paced world and the Guardian reflects that,publishing not only a quality newspaper but hundreds of articles online each day. Many of these articles believe comments open beneath them, allowing you, or the reader,to believe your say instantly “below the line”. Some pieces can thus immediate thousands of comments in the space of a few hours.
Yet in parallel with this hive of instantaneous digital activity, the Guardian’s traditional letters page is still going strong and is particularly popular with many of the most loyal buyers of the newspaper. Research suggests that 15% of our core readership has at some point written a letter to the editor. But while we call ourselves “the letters page”, and it is inevitable that in 2016 the majority of submissions are via email.
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Source: theguardian.com