So a fellow DAP member sent me this message and I told him/her that I was going to copy and paste this for everyone. He/she worked at a congressional office some time ago, and gave me this inside report on what goes on when we fax/phone/mail the congressmen:

Originally Posted by dreaming on the dream
I don't know if I am replying to this correctly, but here it goes. Yes, when we received letters or postcards for other senators, we would send them to the appropriate office. I just saw the 8,000 postcard thread. I think it is a GREAT idea! When we received mass faxes, emails or postcards, we really paid attention! We would google the issue and sometimes had to write a memo on it to present the idea to the chief of staff. The whole idea is for us to get every single staffer, field reps, chiefs of staff to know exactly what the DREAM ACT is. Usually interns take calls from constituents or staff assistants so we have nothing to be afraid of. One more thing, every single call is tallied, by way of a spreadsheet. Usually if it's a big issue we'll have two columns one reading pro, one reading con. The staff assistants at the end of the day total up the number of calls and send a nightly report over to the DC office. They let the senator know what its constituency is thinking about a certain issue. We need to do the post card idea, but we also have to call non stop, fax like crazy, email, letters! everything counts. When I was at the office, there was a group that sent over 1,000 faxes in 1 hr for a certain issue, and guess what?, they definitely got the staffers attention. So, all in all, we need to do everything we can. Sorry this reply was so long. Hope this helps.