Why use USPS to Deliver Demand Letter when email is available
<p>A Florida HOA is in breach of contract: the next step is to send a 'demand' letter seeking actionable remedy.  There is a history with HOA of using email: is there any compelling reason to send the demand letter via USPS registered mail?</p>

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  <p>Why use USPS to Deliver Demand Letter when email is available</p>
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<p>The answer essentially lies in NateEldredge's comment, and is consistent with <a href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/20001118220f3d89811027" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>Firefighter's Inst. for Racial Equal v. City fo St. Louis</em>, 220 F.3d 898, 903</a> in that regular mail (and impliedly email) as a method of service is generally inadmissible "<em>because the court cannot be assured that delivery has occurred</em>".</p>

<p>Even if the HOA replied to your email, <a href="https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/31361/employer-did-not-accept-resignation-in-germany?noredirect=1#comment57141_31361">phoog</a> is right in that the possibility of falsification of email records may prevent some courts from admitting service by email.</p>

<h1>in some jurisdictions and circumstances e-mail is insufficient.</h1>
<p>In <a href="/questions/tagged/germany" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;germany&#39;" rel="tag">germany</a> an e-mail does not constitute at all to being <strong>in wrtiting</strong> (&quot;schriftlich/Schriftform&quot;). Several types of actions necessarily requires things to be in writing, which the law requires to be on paper, signed, and affixed to the paper in a manner that can't be easily altered (&quot;Dokumentenecht&quot;). A pencil note wouldn't be &quot;in writing&quot; as a result, because pencil isn't &quot;Dokumentenecht&quot;.</p>
<p>Among the things that have to be in writing are notices of quitting or firing from a job, as well as changes to rental agreements.</p>

<p>Often, the governing documents of the HOA or a state statute will dictate a particular method of providing notice.</p>

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