Is it more effective to email your representative or send a letter?

Question

Is it more effective to email your representative or send a letter?

Answer 1

a hand written letter is most effective... its personal .. it takes time...  

Answer 2

I sent an email, and I get the feeling that it wasn't taken seriously.  It's worth the $.50 to write the letter.

Answer 3

email, I usually get a response the same day.  Snail mail and it ends up sitting on someones desk forever.

Answer 4

My experience is that they are about equal.  What is important is not the method, but the clarity of the communication.  If your note, whether e-mail or regular letter, is organized, detailed, and relatively short (everything on a single page), it will get a response.  I usually keep a printed copy, even of e-mails, and if I do not hear back within six weeks, then I follow up with a phone call or visit to the representative's office.

Answer 5

Email.  Letters have to be opened, and they don't always do that.  They simply throw them.  Emails can be sorted and counted.