WriteToThem
{{Short description|Political website in the United Kingdom}}
{{Infobox website
| name = WriteToThem
| favicon =
| logo =
| screenshot = WriteToThem_screenshot.png
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| url = {{url|https://www.writetothem.com/}}
| commercial = No
| type = Site for contacting elected representatives
| registration = None
| owner = mySociety
| author = mySociety
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2005}} (FaxYourMP, a previous iteration, 2000)
| current_status = Active
}}
WriteToThem is a website by mySociety which allows UK citizens to contact their elected representatives. Users do not need to know their representatives’ names: instead, using the mySociety software MapIt,{{cite web|url=http://mapit.mysociety.org/|title=MapIt : map postcodes and geographical points to administrative areas|publisher=}} the site matches their postcode to its various constituency boundaries, before displaying elected representatives at all levels of UK government from local councillors to MEPs. Users can send messages to them from the site;{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4735330.stm|title=Site axes MP over 'fake' e-mails|date=21 February 2006|publisher=|via=bbc.co.uk}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2006/feb/20/politicalnews.uk|title=MPs show no haste to post|first=Matthew|last=Tempest|website=TheGuardian.com |date=20 February 2006|publisher=}} responses are then sent directly to the user's email address. Unlike many mySociety sites, there is no public element to the correspondence.
History
The site launched in 2000 as FaxYourMP,{{cite web|url=http://techpresident.com/news/wegov/24309/teacamp-where-british-civil-servants-goes-brew-change-within|title=Teacamp: Where British Civil Servants Go to Brew Change From Within|date=6 November 2020 |publisher=}} allowing users to type a message into the website which would then be sent as a fax to their representative's office.
In 2005, it rebranded as WriteToThem,{{cite web|url=https://www.mysociety.org/2005/02/13/writetothemcom-launches/|title=WriteToThem.com Launches / mySociety|publisher=}} sending messages by email or as faxes to those representatives who did not yet operate an email account.
mySociety publish an annual table to show which MPs are the most and least responsive;{{cite web|url=https://www.writetothem.com/stats/2014/zeitgeist|title=WriteToThem|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/12882689.John_Glen_named_as_one_of_the__most_responsive__MPs_in_the_country/|title=John Glen named as one of the 'most responsive' MPs in the country|publisher=}} this is based on the results of a rolling survey which is sent to users two weeks after they use the site.
In 2006, it was reported by The Guardian that the Conservative MP Ian Liddell-Grainger appeared to admit in an email to the site to attempting to "up" his rating by sending himself queries.