For about a decade, I used to carefully file all thank you letters in the applicant files. They never came up during selection committee meetings and they were all nice and tasteful. No one ever noted the lack of one. Then for the last few years, I open and read them for any particular content that may need noting or responding to, so I would file it if it needed to be, but there never was a reason. Now we have gone paperless, I haven’t quite taken to throwing them away without opening them, but I’m sure it wouldn’t change anything if I did. Maybe I’ll do that just once when no one is looking just to act out a tiny bit. Sometimes I enjoy reading them, but after 100 of them, they begin to seem like V-day cards in grammar school.
You can write cards if you want to, but don’t feel it is required.
