How to write a letter.

Step 5 Track down the recipient.

If you know how to contact the person you wrote to then skip this step.

If you now need to figure out where to mail your letter to, you may be in for a challenge.

For instance, tracking down Britney Spears is no easy task.

However, I do have some basic guidelines I follow.

My first course of action is to go to Google and search for:
"Britney Spears contact"
"Britney Spears email"
"Britney Spears e-mail"
"Britney Spears phone"
"Britney Spears fax"
"Contact Britney Spears"
"email Britney Spears"
"e-mail Britney Spears"
"phone Britney Spears"
"fax Britney Spears"

Make note of all possible mailing and email addresses that you find.

The next step would be to confirm these addresses. Check to see when the addresses were posted to the web and how current they are. Also, find out where the person is currently living. Find out who their management/publisher/law firm/company is and where it is located. Find out if they have a fan club and where it is based out of.

With Britney Spears, after a basic extensive online background search I concluded that her current contact address is most likely:

Britney Spears
c/o ReignDeer Entertainment
394 Huntley Drive
West Hollywood, CA 90048

or you can just contact her and her management on myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/britneyspears
http://myspace.com/reigndeer

with all of that said....

This Google-based method of tracking down celebrities, politicians and other public figures normally works pretty well.