EDIT: I've deleted my comment and my other replies to this discussion. As irrational as it is, my silly e-psyche recognizes it's easy to hit the delete button rather than watch my opinion down-arrowed.
Maybe he should. I write for a publisher whose offices are more than a thousand miles away from me. We have this nifty thing called the Internet now, and postal mail works even when you don't live in the same city anyway (postal mail being how most book proposals and manuscripts are delivered when they are not sent digitally). Even if you have to fly halfway across the country twice a year for meetings, which is more often than many people would have to actually meet face-to-face with editors at publishers (judging by my limited experience at least), it costs less than sweet digs in the financial district of one of the most expensive cities in the world.
