diff --git a/applications/party/minilang/test/PartyTests.xml b/applications/party/minilang/test/PartyTests.xml
index 4587f9d..7fe2268 100644
--- a/applications/party/minilang/test/PartyTests.xml
+++ b/applications/party/minilang/test/PartyTests.xml
@@ -541,6 +541,7 @@
             <field-map field-name="userLoginId" value="system"/>
         </entity-one>
         <set field="serviceCtx.userLogin" from-field="userLogin"/>
+        <set field="serviceCtx.contactMechTypeId" value="EMAIL_ADDRESS"/>
         <call-service service-name="createPartyContactMech" in-map-name="serviceCtx"/>
         <entity-and entity-name="PartyContactMech" list="partyContactMechList">
             <field-map field-name="contactMechId" value="TestContactMech3"/>
diff --git a/applications/party/src/main/java/org/apache/ofbiz/party/contact/ContactMechServices.java b/applications/party/src/main/java/org/apache/ofbiz/party/contact/ContactMechServices.java
index 68349ee..1169362 100644
--- a/applications/party/src/main/java/org/apache/ofbiz/party/contact/ContactMechServices.java
+++ b/applications/party/src/main/java/org/apache/ofbiz/party/contact/ContactMechServices.java
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@
 
                 // create a new party contact mech for the partyIdTo
                 Map<String, Object> serviceResults = dispatcher.runSync("createPartyContactMech", UtilMisc.<String, Object>toMap("partyId", partyIdTo, "userLogin", userLogin,
-                            "contactMechId", contactMechId, "fromDate", UtilDateTime.nowTimestamp(),
+                            "contactMechId", contactMechId, "contactMechTypeId", contactMech.getString("contactMechTypeId"), "fromDate", UtilDateTime.nowTimestamp(),
                             "allowSolicitation", partyContactMech.getString("allowSolicitation"), "extension", partyContactMech.getString("extension")));
                 if (ServiceUtil.isError(serviceResults)) {
                     return serviceResults;