Here's why it is a bad idea to write physical thank you letters after interviews

I just went to the old building my team used to work at to meet with someone. On the way back I happened to pass our old mail room and just for the heck of it decided to check our old inter-office mailbox. Keep in mind that our entire team moved to a new building at the beginning of the year. Coincidently, I found a bunch of unopened mail in my manager's mailbox and brought it over to him. In all that crap he found a couple of thank you letters that candidates had mailed him when he had interviewed them for jobs late last year. Suffice to say, none of those guys work for us.

I am not saying those post interview thank you letters would have made a difference, but if they were in fact going to make a difference, they never reached the person on time. Nobody opens their snail mail regularly anymore at work anymore. What happened today was an accident.

Just email your thank you letters if you want to send one. Hand written letters are weird, old fashioned, out of place, and for the most part useless for the current corporate work place.