I've had a very nice email from the Vallum editors, stressing that their snail mail restriction is only for poetry, not other kinds of submission. I recognize that there may be understandable if not too defensible reasons for requiring the expense of paper ink and diesel. (Plus it does seem to chime rather ironically with the zingy theme of contemporary rush.)
I tend to think with Tilla that there will be growing numbers of people today for whom postal mail must be very much the exception. "Regular mail" is still ambiguous, but is surely converging on the meaning "email".
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