Ifølge Haag­konventionens artikel 6 kunne forkyndelse ganske vist også foretages gen­nem postvæsenet, men Forbundsrepublikken Tyskland havde udtrykkeligt modsat sig denne form for forkyndelse.
It was true that Article 6 of the Hague Convention provided for service by post, but the Federal Republic of Germany had specifically rejected that form of serv­ice.