It’s best to write and mail actual paper letters to elected officials. These tend to carry more weight than electronic or phone communications, because letters demonstrate that a constituent went to extra effort to compose and send them.

Here is how elected officials tend to “weigh” communications from constituents:

1. Meeting with them in person!
2. Letter written or typed on paper, posted and mailed
3. Phone calls
4. E-mails
5. Petitions