• Section 196 notices This indicates the requirements to serve a valid notice notice ensuring that it is properly served.
• This might involve duplicate notices served in a variety of ways

• By hand in the presence of a reliable witness: logging the date, time, surroundings, those present, any responses then furnishing all this at court.
• Posting "first class" and registering the postage by recorded delivery.  However, if a troublesome tenant refuses to accept notices then have it witnessed and hand delivered ideally by a process server.
• Email is so easy it acts as further evidence with a specific computer 'identifier' evincing receipt.
• Sending to the last known address is also valid.
• Taping a notice to a door following abandonment may also a requirement (it is prudent to tape over the lock evincing a tear in the paper should a tenant return to re-enter.
• Whether or not it is read is irrelevant as notices merely need to be served.
• Modern phones contain geo-tagging enabling additional evidence of photographs being taken at precise times, dates and places (via latitude and longitudinal references.
• Case law has influenced how judges are influenced by postage methods:

See also:

• post for previous tenants
• Redirecting mail
• mail and redirecting mail
• Proof of posting