Preliminary Notices via MCP

Construction-industry preliminary notices have to ship as physical mail with proof of delivery. Here's how to give an agent the ability to send them.

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Why physical mail still matters here

In US construction, mechanic's lien rights typically depend on serving preliminary notices on the property owner, GC, and lender by certified mail (or equivalent). Email doesn't satisfy the statute. Physical mail with tracking does.

What the agent does

  • Pulls project, owner, GC, and lender data from your records.
  • Drafts the preliminary notice using the template that matches the project's state.
  • Calls send_letter for each recipient with the appropriate certified-mail flag.
  • Records the tracking IDs back into your project record for the audit trail.

Why MCP makes sense

A construction-PM-style agent already has tools for project data, contacts, and document templates. Adding Agent Mail gives it the missing physical-world action. The agent stops being a draft-and-remind tool and starts being end-to-end.

What we don't do

We don't write the legal content for you. Use the right state-specific template; we just print and mail it. If you need a richer compliance layer (deadline calculation, statutory language), keep that in your application and call us at the dispatch step.

Wire Mailsnail into your agent

Drop this into your client's MCP config (or use /setup for one-line installs).

mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mailsnail": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "physical-mail-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MAIL_PROVIDER": "managed",
        "MAIL_API_BASE_URL": "https://api.mailsnail.dev"
      }
    }
  }
}

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