Email and Letter Closings

Forever and a day........... my boss to me to stop signing my emails this way.

FANKS - and then my name

before I retired last year, I started seeing much more "Have a Blessed Day" at the end of company related emails

What's forever and a day from? :D

r3 who was the culprit of that? Was it a Christian organization?

I've always been partial to "cordially" for work related or professional correspondence.

R5 I think we were starting to get infiltrated with more young recruits who identify as "Christians" and feeling more emboldened.

^^^it was just an engineering firm which tends secular

Up yours!

"Tight Bindings and Feather Ticklers"

"Lesbionically Yours,"

"I think "Thanks" seems passive-aggressive, ESPECIALLY if it has a period afterwards."

How is the use of thanks as a sign off passive-aggressive? What anger is being passive aggressively expressed?

To anyone I’d have a friendly drink with, I sign off with “Cheers”

And for everyone else, it’s “Best”.

How old are you OP?

Would you also like us to compose the letter or email for you?

Whenever you ask your fellow DLers for advice, you are entering the danger zone.

✌ PEACE OUT !

I use thanks with colleagues I am familiar with, otherwise I use Best. I don't really like it, but I can't find something else I like better.

"Thanks in advance" shows them how much you care and value them as a human being (with oh-so-delicate thoughts and feelings.)

And subtly let's them know that you expect their full swift cooperation regarding this matter.

George Kingfish Stevens used "Hoping you are the same," as a complimentary close.

Please do the needful

r3 when people received the message, did think Blessed was bles-sed or blest?

R20 I assumed Bles-sed , but can't speak for others.

"Cordially"

My moronic coworkers whose use that odious term pronounce it as "blest".

Best/Cheers/Regards are all pretty standard.

Best is a little more current, Cheers a little more 00s

Thanks is for when you're asking for something fairly simple but a favor nonetheless from someone you know pretty well, e.g., "I can't find John's email address. Do you have it? Thanks!"

"Warmly" is shorthand for "I am a pretentious fuck who takes myself way too seriously"

I absolutely detest seeing or hearing "Having a Blessed Day" - it truly reeks of righteousness and low-breeding.

"Hurry up, Jew."

What? It tells him to get on the ball!

[quote] and low-breeding.

Well smell you, Princess Margaret!

"Best" what, though? Is it really that exhausting to type "wishes" (or "Mayonnaise") after it?

I've always found "Don't forget, I know where you live," to be the most effective.

I don't end with anything. Jeez, my e-mail address is on there, they know it's from me

When I was recruited by "Feed The Children" I was told to look very sad for my photo op, and to sign my plea for donations with [italic] "Ravenously Yours"

I never close a letter or email with “Best”. What the hell does it mean? “Best” what? Does it really mean “Best Wishes?” It just dangles there. I prefer “Sincerely”.

[italic] " SIMPLY THE BEST"

I like the way the British often do it: "Kind regards"

Yes, R34, I like the closing “Kind regards”.

Guess Who ?

Ta-Ta's for now,

Yours in eternal clutching,

Our thoughts and prayers are with the dozens of victims,

My cunty message will self destruct in 10 seconds,

There is no need to include any closing in an email. Maybe a dash followed by your name at most. Add the signature block with your contact info if you must, but leave out the cutesy quotes. No one cares.

One girl where I work changes the quote in her signature every day. Today was something from Helen Steiner Rice. Bitch is getting fired in a couple of weeks, though she’ll be the last to know. I might feel sorry for her if she wasn’t so useless. She’s dumb as a box of hair, and this signature shit is a clear example of her priorities.

I think best, cheers, regards, warmly are all horrible. Who talks like this? Just write your name at the bottom. Or write a closing sentence with a comma and then your name underneath.

The first three are always used by assholes at work who think they’re all that.

Same assholes who goodbye you “take care” ^

"Yikes. 'Best' is the worst." - Carrie Bradshaw, discussing this years ago

“Yours In Christ” or just “In Christ”

If you have an automatic email signature do you also type your name after you type your closing?

Regards, Butch

Butch Jones CEO

If I hate the recipient, it’s “Best!” or “Cheers!”

For those I respect, no signature line, just a message followed by a dash and my name.

“Fuck off, cunt” is my typical closing to emails.

It would help if there were some context as to what kind of emails these are? Usually, just using your name is fine.

I hate "Best, " too. I always think less of the people who use it.

I never use it , except a couple of times to idiots who used it

If I'm writing hate mail, then I prefer:

"Die in a grease fire,"

Captain Caftan wuvs woo!

For work Emails, I typically sign off with, "Thanks". With my friends, I don't bother to even add a closing. If I'm asking someone to do something for me, it's 'Thanks in advance."

For written correspondence, it's usually "regards" or "sincerely".

I love the way our offshore staff usually begin their messages with "Good Day!": I picture some cute pinoy guy channeling some Monty Python twit.

R49, The Emails I typically receive are typically requests for my input: tracing checks, pulling EOBs, explaining how to bypass an error message on a claim, how to interpret a specific medical benefit, how to price a claim at the correct Medicare allowance. The ones where I'm asking for help are when I need to request that a business analyst investigate a system error, or ask someone in product development how they intended for a particular benefit to be interpreted.

Why is there air?

I have a coworker who closes everything on one line with “Thanks, Pat.” Drives me crazy! Stop thanking Pat, Pat!

r53 do your outsourced Philippines guys also tell you they've completed a task by saying "I already finished that"? I hated that when I was managing them. It sounds in the same vein as "As I said before, I xxx" or "As I already mentioned, yyy", where it's a gentle (and passive-aggressive) reprimand.

Are the people writing “Cheers”, above, from the UK? Is anyone writing such from the elsewhere?

I’m from the US and I can’t imagine writing “Cheers” to another American. Is it what the young people are writing now, if they can write?

Cheers!

To family and close friends, I write: “Best wishes and Love”. The former is not intimate enough, and the latter is too brief by itself.

I tried “Sincerely” for a while, but it was too businesslike even for business. I also tried “Yours truly” but it oddly seems insincere.

Champagne wishes and caviar dreams

Presenting hole to you & your loved ones,

For now, my sphincter ramblings must come to an end.

Hi Mr. B

"Cheers" was big in the US about 10 years ago, probably because it did sound sort of British.

But all the people who used to end emails with "Cheers" now use "Best"

After seeing this thread, I looked through my work emails and at least 3/4 of them are signed "Best" regardless of age or gender of the sender

And the current rule of thumb is that you don't need to sign follow-up emails and/or you can just put your initials if you feel compelled to use some sort of signature.

So

[quote] Thanks Bob. 10:45 is perfect. Talk to you then.

[quote] --MB

Very truly yours,

Keep Calm and Carry On,

Waitin’ and B8in’

Smell ya later,

99% of my emails are work emails. I'm either asking someone to supply information or do something for me, or providing information in response or indicating that I've done something requested. I sign them all "Thanks" for the first two and add nothing to the last. I then add my name and title (which is automatically generated. If somwone sends me an email with information I've requested or informs me of anything I always send a quick "Thanks" back.

[quote] I'm either asking someone to supply information or do something for me

OK then “W8n & B8n”

My boss use to sign off with “blessings to you all” but he stopped that thank god. Now it is “kind regards”

I usually use “cheers” or “with thanks”

A lot of people at my work sign off with "Later".

bis später!

Obviously, I'd never use this in a professional message, but sometimes I sign e-mails to very close friends, mostly female, with 'xo, Chris' Is this way too feminine?

Deez nutz

xo, Chris is cute.

You're a Seinfeldian "email responder" R65

It's what one of my friends calls people who reply to requests for information with "thanks" -- I had never thought of it before he brought it up, but the world does seem split 50/50 into people who do or don't

I abhor thanks when it has a period after it. My ex boss used to toss it in after EVERY sentence and request, and it was so disingenuous. Then it was annoying when the millennials in the office started copying him. They're so impressionable.