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You're ignoring the benefits though - it will help adapt more services to work online and reduce bureaucracy.

Look at Germany where they outright refuse to acknowledge emails as a legal notification / correspondence so everything still gets sent as letters and fax. It's extremely slow and cumbersome.

Also it will help for security as the central service can authenticate you, instead of every little hotel and bank branch, etc. keeping a copy of your passport.



There are a ton of things in the US that require or at least almost universally use letters for notifications.


Am I ignoring the benefits or am I just responding to the comment?


Good. Send it in the mail. I don't want my inbox to require legal burden to read.




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