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Chip wrote:

Mithras61 wrote:That it sat in their "In" box for five weeks is much more likely.

Agreed. The point is that it's a good idea to have documentation of when you sent it in, and when they received it.

I agree with you on that. I'm just saying that it seems unlikely to me that the courts would believe that it took six weeks for them to receive it from you by mail.

The certified mail also shows that you MAILED it on a certain date as well, instead of requiring that the court believe that you mailed it when you SAY you did...

You're right about sending certified mail with return receipt requested, ans such, but what reasonable person would argue that it takes 6 weeks for US Mail to arrive in Austin from anywhere in Texas? I mean, even the old mail-by-stagecoach didn't take THAT long within the state. Normal expectation is between 3 and 7 days from the date that the mail is dropped. Yes, it does occasionally take longer than that, but I've never had anything get "lost" for 4 or 5 weeks and then reappear, which is essentially what would have to have happened in your case. They're claiming that they didn't receive it until they started processing it, which is silly. That it sat in their "In" box for five weeks is much more likely.