I wrote to him once via his then management company - found the address on the back of an album (world of morrissey or maybe my early burglary years - or maybe even one of the singles from around that time) anyway it was around 1997 and he was laying low in LA. He must have got my letter because about three months later he wrote back! So don't believe it when people say he never writes back. Not sure why he decided to reply to me - His reply was a short note without a return address and so the correspondence ended there, I think the trick is not to say "please reply otherwise i'll drown in my own tears....."
goodluck.
I scanned the reply on here once but can't seem to find it now...