Unless it's late at night and there's nothing else to read in the house. Those with word processors will please avoid any fancy layout and design. Do not continually change fonts, do not place pretty borders around every third paragraph, and do not shift from full page to columns then back again. Editors are notoriously feeble-minded, and if our eyes can't follow a sentence because the format keeps changing then we won't read the article. Editors immediately start to write on whatever is placed before them.
Coffee gets spilt.
Keep a copy for yourself, in one form or another. If you wish your manuscript returned, please include sufficient postage to bring your baby home. You can query us through e-mail, too. As this saves you and us money we heartily suggest those with the capability follow this route. Although we still get a thrill when we find stuff in our mailbox.