I always hear this on the news. " Senator Blowhard sent a letter to the President to ask for aid for a program". You get the idea. How do they actually send a letter? I doubt that it’s USPS. Thousands are delivered to the President every day. And I’ll bet that he doesn’t see many of them. E-mail? Not sure that he has time to sit and check his mail. Courier? * Knock Knock * Special Delivery for Mr President. I don’t think so.
So enlighten me. Exactly how does he get a letter sent by another politician?
Why do you doubt that they use the U.S. Postal Service? It’s free for official congressional business.
And there are courier deliveries all the time. Obviously, they don’t hand it to the president in person, but there’s someone at the Executive Office of the President who receives deliveries.
I haven’t actually seen it done with my own eyes, but my guess is that they drop a copy in the mail and then release copies to the public.
There are also liaison offices between Congress and the president. Important communications go through there. But when you hear about a “letter” on the news, the important part is the public release.
U.S. Government agencies and offices send each other regular mail all the time. Often, it’s a regulatory requirement that certain notifications and communications be issued by mail.
Or even physical goods? In 1937, the U.S. transferred thousands of tons of gold bullion via registered mail.
It goes through the Office of Congressional Relations.
The Office maintains physical offices in both chambers (out of the VP’s senate offices in the case of the Senate, out of the Presidents party’s House leader’s offices in the case of the House), so regarding the actual act of sending a letter, I imagine Joe Congress gives the letter to an intern who walks it down to that office and gives it to the relevant secretary.