<p>Snail-mailing it is probably more formal, but do you think it is necessary? I have my interviewer's card, so I have both his email and his work address. Which do you think I should do?</p>
<p>Snail Mail is better.</p>
<p>100% snail mail</p>
<p>Well…I sent an email, but got an out of office reply. Should I snail mail a thank you now? Or would that seem excessive if he got ~two.</p>
<p>Either is fine, he/she will appreciate either since most kids lack manners and send nothing. Sending both is fine, too.</p>
<p>Thanks for being polite.</p>
<p>E-mail has seemed to be fine. The admissions offices are buried in paper.</p>
<p>I assumed you’re talking about an interviewer who’s an alum, not an employee of the admissions office?</p>
<p>As an alumnus, I’ve interviewed students who sent email and students who send U.S. Mail. I appreciated either, but I appreciated snail mail more. I’ve interviewed students who sent nothing. I didn’t appreciate that so much. Between meeting to interview and writing a report for the Ad Comm, it takes at least two hours of my time.</p>
<p>But I don’t believe that whether I got a thank-you, or by what medium, ever had any effect on my interview report.</p>
<p>Snail mail.</p>
<p>Good quality paper.</p>
<p>Handwritten.</p>
<p>Fountain pen.</p>
<p>Ok, maybe not fountain pen because they’re hard to come by these days. But you get the idea.</p>
<p>Snail mail.</p>