the difference between a business letter and email
The differences between emails and letters is that, emails are send electronically and arrives faster to the person that you are sending it too, while in the other hand letters takes a little bit longer to arrives to the person and can be lost from the mailing company especially whens sending it overseas also it cost money.
Business letters tend to have both the sender and receiver's address and the date at the top of the page and they begin with a polite salutation, such as dear Mr. and Mrs, followed by a blank line before the body or the content of the letter.