Pilots often suggest using e-mail to contact members of Congress. E-mail is the quickest, easiest, and most efficient way to send messages these days. However, AOPA s Legislative Affairs Department does not recommend using e-mail to contact Congress at this time. We recommend using regular mail or faxes. Here s why.
Congressional offices receive enormous amounts of e-mail every day.
Most simply do not have the time or the staff to read them all. It is difficult to discern whether a sender of an e-mail message is a constituent who lives in the congressional district or state. Thus most e-mail messages are ignored or discarded. Letters sent by the U.S. Postal Service receive much more attention, and are almost guaranteed a response. AOPA Legislative Affairs Department staff have given this issue a great deal of consideration.