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Deleting letters from personal feeds

If a letter deleted from a person's activity feed was sent to multiple recipients, the letter is removed from all recipients' feeds. This is because the entry in the feed is to the letter as a whole, not to the individual's particular copy. Thus, we have two common situations:

We generate a letter to a batch of recipients. A letter had an extra recipient "Jack" when we really meant to sen it to Zack. We notice the mistake and it is never mailed. Since "Jack" never received the letter in real life, we delete it from his activity feed. But now it's gone from all the other recipients' feeds, and there is no trace of the letter being mailed.

Or, even more common: We generate a batch of letters and realize there was a mistake (say an incorrect mailing address). Now we have to choose between leaving the extra letter cluttering the feed, pushing relevant issue further down the page, and prompting the questions "Why did Jack get two copies of this letter? A few days apart? Did he give two donations? I only see one in their Donations tab." Or else we can delete the bad copy, and now we are left wondering why NOBODY was thanked for donations last week even though they are marked as acknowledge in the Donations module. 

Of course sometimes it may be necessary to delete an entire batch of recipients (there was a typo in the form letter). But we need a way to choose the right course of action.

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