Ep 29: Chain Letters

Have you every been involved with the distribution of Chain Letters? Samm didn’t think she had either, but Amy changed her mind on the 29th episode of Legend where they discuss where the heck chain letters came from and why despite the numbers just not adding up in favor of the participant, they just keep on participating! The time of the paper chain letters might be over but the chain letter is not a thing of the past, find out how you might still be participating in them and not even realize it.

Send this to 10 of your friends in three days to have your secret admirer revealed or suffer bad luck for 7 years.

An example of one of the Letters of Heaven

VanArsedale’s graph depicting the popularity by year.

An example of the send a dime letter.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/chain-letters-swept-internet-they-raised-funds-orphans-and-conveyed-messages-god-180975005/ Before Chain Letters Swept the Internet, They Raised Funds for Orphans and Sent Messages From God

https://about.usps.com/publications/pub300a/pub300a_v04_revision_072019_tech_007.htm Chain Letters

http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/evolution.html#p2luck_chain_letters Chain Letter Evolution

http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/archive/%21content.html THE PAPER CHAIN LETTER ARCHIVE - ANNOTATED INDEX

https://datcp.wi.gov/Documents/ChainLetters115.pdf Chain Letters

https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/chain-letters.html Chain Letters