And watch your mail get mauled in the process. So think twice before you slave over the look and feel of your letters. Just write a normal note and send it off. Forget the decorations. Hold it, pal.
Image formats make up the last refuge of babbling idiots.
The people you send the pictures to won't be able to make sense out of them unless they're stored in a standard image format. But BMPs are often huge files, so don't even think of sending them by e-mail unless you have a cable Internet connection. Send JPEGs instead. Yessir, yes ma'am, those two Bills just sit around all day looking for things to do, so they write to a couple of million people every few days asking for help, for money, for you to send more chain letters, all that kind of thing. As are ALL of the virus warnings you get in the mail.