I remember once I entered a writing contest and one of the things that drew me to enter was that they said if we didn't win they'd give us the printed MS back. We had to print 3, one for each judge. I didn't win, and when I went to pick up my MS they told me there'd been a mistake and they weren't actually going to give the MS back to us, which made me feel really cheated. At the end of the day, any artist working on any form of art doesn't want to see their work which took them days, weeks, months, years to finish go to waste. I love the initiative of sending the works back, though of course that seems to be the normal, but your attitude about it is very nice.