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Suggestion:
Letters can be sealed (put in an envelope) then unsealed.

How:
Existing letters and new letters can remain as-is, people can choose to seal or not.

Verb: >seal letter
"You slide the letter into a thin paper envelope and lick the adhesive edge, sealing it shut."
When the letter is sealed, the contents cannot be read.

A letter can be unsealed:
Verb: >unseal letter
"You tear open the envelope, destroying the seal and extracting the letter."

When the letter is unsealed, the contents can be read. If you look at the letter when it has been opened you'd be able to easily tell it was tampered.
"The envelope is already torn open.".

By villa at Dec 27, 2025, 6:21 AM | 0
Doesn't writing up normal letter already do it? I don't think you can fold it back after opening it?
By Froggy at Dec 27, 2025, 6:22 AM | 0
Hmm, interesting.

I hate letters, though.

They contribute to so much bloat. Nobody trashes their old letters.

By Mench at Dec 27, 2025, 7:51 AM | 0
I always thought it'd be cool to be able to append an ASCII seal or something at the bottom of a letter so that you can send official corp documents and whatnot. Or be able to 'digitally sign' an e-note printed document that way. And then have forensics be able to forge seals like that and notice if they're forged as well.
By Cowbell at Dec 27, 2025, 7:52 AM | 1
For the record, I love the format of this idea suggestion.

Thank you,

Follow up question for Villa, Why? What would this add to the game?

By Mench at Dec 27, 2025, 9:44 AM | 3
This is a cool idea. Also appreciate how you formatted it.

Side question, how long after adding do people request the ability to secretly open and reseal letters? Would that negate it entirely?

By Slither at Dec 27, 2025, 5:33 PM | 0
I feel like you don't even need to open/reclose it secretly with this system. Just have another letter ready and transfer the contents.

Maybe it could work if each letter is one-time-use and has a unique ID that you can view IC? Then you just need to tell the other person the ID of the letter and they could verify that it is the same letter ID and is still sealed on their end.

By ikunaut at Dec 27, 2025, 9:03 PM | 0
What if the envelope has a special ink-adhesive stamp that sticks to the letter inside, and once the letter is unsealed, the special ink begins to change color slowly over time, so the reader can know if the letter had been unsealed before, and roughly when? And trying to reseal it adds a different mark, so one can know if a letter has been resealed often?
By Sulfurado at Dec 28, 2025, 10:23 AM | 0
Thanks for the feedback on the format, it's good to have a precedent.

I am responding only after you added this feature (thank you!) to say that the biggest benefit is to be able to hire runners to deliver letters without having to expose all of the data in the letter. The data is still accessible easily but it's now an IC choice that the runner can make. They can choose to open it but that's an IC decision now.

By villa at Dec 28, 2025, 12:27 PM | 1
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