Hi All:
I got the same letter, a plain 5.5 X 8.5 (half a sheet of standard printer paper) which looked like it was typed initially on a IBM Selectric typewriter (You can tell this from the slight misalignment of each letter from the last, and the margins look estimated by a human; a Word document sets neater margins) then copied on a laserjet printer (you can tell it’s a copy because there are no indentations from the typewriter stamping motion) as laserjet printers have slightly raised print. The reason I’m weirded out too is becaue clearly someone spent some time on this. Also, it’s not sent out as “bulk” mail, it has a full price, “Forever” sticker stamp on the envelope, a church is a non profit and use bulk rate and non-profit org mail rates.
@AlilWeirdedOut I appreciate your research as I didn’t get that far myself, and you’re certainly “warm”, but Yeshuat Tsion doesn’t spell the words Lord or God with the vowels on any place “where it may be removed or thrown away”, they spell them “L-rd” and “G-d”, and are so particular about it they even do so on their website, which arguably doesn’t have the “disposable or removable” danger. Surely they’d have done the same in a letter they didn’t even have the bravery to place a return address on, knowing it’s likely going in the trash. The reason being, it’s against the 2nd of the Ten Commandments to “use the lord’s name in vain”.
I’d really like to hear from all the people who posted these initial posts, just to chat back and forth about it, since it looks to me like someone wanted this to look like Yeshuat Tsion but at the same time wanted to be untraceable. Please comment back and let’s figure this out, just for giggles.
Thanks, AWO