TALLINN — The Tallinn city government has voiced plans to change the way traffic infringement notices are delivered, sending them by email rather than by post in an effort to streamline the process.

The move, which could affect up to 65,000 cases annually, is a move towards simplicity Tallinn Deputy Mayor Jaanus Mutli said.

The proposal is one of many by different levels of Estonian government to increasingly move towards e-governance, a trend that has earned the country the moniker “e-stonia.”

It’s a question of timeliness — the Baltic postal services are notoriously slow. Päevaleht newspaper reported that in many cases, the cumbersome postal service left the processing of cases in disarray with some people only finding out about their fines after the seizure of assets.

Also Estonians often do not notify all sectors of government of their changed address, so they do not receive infringement notices.

Multi argues that this problem would be avoided if the system was modernized because people keep their email addresses for a lot longer than their physical address.

Analysts say that the system may not save significant amounts of money, but will be quicker and decrease bureaucracy.