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Address it to The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, with "The President" as the recipient line. Every piece of mail is screened off site, so expect it to take weeks to arrive. Include your name and return address so staff can reply, keep the tone respectful, and skip packages: unsolicited parcels don't get through.
The envelope should read:
The President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
That is the whole thing. You do not need a person's name, a department, or a mail stop. Everything addressed to the president funnels through the Office of Presidential Correspondence, which has sorted this mail for decades. Use plain white envelopes and normal postage; anything odd-looking, from glitter to bulky padding, slows your letter down or gets it set aside.
Open with "Dear Mr. President" (or "Dear Madam President" as appropriate) and close with "Respectfully" or "Sincerely." Keep it to one page. Say who you are in the first two sentences, name the issue, and state clearly what you are asking for. Staffers read thousands of these, and the ones that work read like a conversation, not a legal brief. If you are writing about a personal situation, include enough detail that a caseworker could actually look into it: full name, dates, and any reference numbers.
| Do | Don't |
|---|---|
| Include your full name and return address | Send it anonymously (it will be discarded) |
| Keep it to one page, one issue | Send a package or gift (unsolicited parcels are not delivered) |
| Be specific about what you want | Include glitter, confetti, or odd materials |
| Type it if your handwriting is hard to read | Expect a personal reply from the president |
First, it does not go to the White House. Since the 2001 anthrax attacks, all White House mail is routed to an off-site screening facility where it is irradiated and checked. This adds weeks to the journey, so a letter about next month's vote may arrive after the vote. Once cleared, letters go to correspondence staff who read every one, sort them by topic, and prepare the daily briefing. Presidents have long received a nightly selection of constituent letters, which means yours genuinely can land on the Resolute desk, but only if it is the kind of letter that stands out: personal, specific, and brief.
Replies, when they come, usually arrive as printed form responses signed by an autopen or stamped signature, weeks or months later. A personal reply is the exception. That is not a reason to skip writing; offices tally every letter by issue, and those tallies reach senior staff even when the letters themselves do not.
Yes. The White House contact form on whitehouse.gov goes straight to the correspondence staff without the irradiation queue, and the comments phone line exists for the same reason. For urgent or time-sensitive matters, those beat paper mail by weeks. But a physical letter still carries a weight that a webform does not, and it becomes part of the permanent correspondence record. If the issue matters to you and the timing is not tight, the letter is worth the wait.
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