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Most editors receive many, many submissions each month. They cannot afford to mail back rejections to everyone who has submitted to them. Do yourselves and the editors a favor. Submit a SASE, Self-Addressed-Stamped-Envelope whenever submitting through regular mail.
And when submitting through e-mail, be sure that the e-mail you are using will not bounce. Nothing is more irritating than to want to publish an article, and to have an e-mail bounce back.