Thread: mandar/enviar

Te envié un email.
Te mandé un email.

Are they the same? Is one better than the other? Is there a tendency to use enviar with things (Te envié flores) and mandar with people (Lo mandé para recoger el paquete)? Or are they pretty much interchangeable?

I do realize that mandar has other definitions. I'm only asking to compare the two verbs in terms of the definition "to send".

Gracias de antemano.

Thanks, Clarab. Your answer is very helpful.
Maria

I agree with Clarab.
But I wouldn't use mandar in an e-mail or a letter because enviar is more formal, and I prefer it. But people do use it - mandar - and I use it too in the spoken language. (Peninsular Spanish).
I suppose it's a matter of taste.