Rank the writers

Re: “Prizes for letter writers”, (PostBag, Oct 17).

I quite like Ye Olde Bloviator’s suggestion for awards for “best of” letters in different categories.

My own suggestion, which I hope might have a slightly better chance of being adopted, is for PostBag to run a weekly review of the topics in the previous seven days which elicited the most correspondence and how differing views stacked up against each other.

This is not an original idea; it’s a feature of a number of major newspapers around the world. It humanises the selection process and gives some context when a lovingly crafted contribution is consigned to the reject tray with nary a by-your-leave or thank you.