I use help wanted ads, among other methods to find work, I would therefore appreciate it if help-wanted advertisers in the Today's Careers, Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The News Tribune, and The Herald, to name a few, would include their fax number or e-mail address and not just only a mailing address.

At the price of 45 cents a submission (postage, photocopies, envelopes) to the job lottery, I can not afford to continue mailing 27 resumes and letters a week. But I do have the time to send e-mail or faxes.

Businesses demand in their ads that employees be computer-literate and electronically knowledgeable, e.g. "must know Word for Windows," etc., yet these same firms don't practice what they preach by listing their fax number and their e-mail address along with their mailing address.

Advertisers in Today's Careers who do provide a fax number or e-mail address are the only ones to whom I will respond to in the future for obvious financial reasons. Which means "mail only" companies will never have an opportunity to utilize someone like myself who is listed in Who's Who in the West.

While I understand that companies may not want to pay the extra cost of faxing (3 to 5 cents a page, not very much compared to postage), they should realize that they already spend time and money opening letters.

Too bad. I guess some firms are not serious about competing in the global marketplace and using all the electronic resources available to them.