Best regards, Kind regards, or Yours sincerely, - which is correct

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Anonymous

#452492 Wed, 12 Dec 07 04:41 PM

All of this seems a bit silly to me in terms of choosing an e-mail sign-off. First, it seems to have become a fad to end e-mails with "Regards". If everyone is sending "regards", then it seems fairly disengenous; surely one does not have "regards" for every single recipient of their e-mails. Personally I find it annoying to see "regards" at the end of everyone's e-mails. It reminds me of when lots of people were using the terms "my bad", "you go girl", etc. etc. If you don't mean it, why say it? Just put your name and company info if the recipient is not familiar with you. If they know, you why even put your name? They will see it in the e-mail header. It's e-mail, not a loving letter.

Anonymous

Regards, Yours sincerely

Mister Micawber

#452555 Wed, 12 Dec 07 10:12 PM

Not much for the social graces, I see, Anon. Good luck in your business career.

Mister Micawber

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'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.'

Regards, Yours sincerely

Anonymous

#460309 Fri, 04 Jan 08 09:15 AM

Hi there ,

I have a question related to this subject I f I may to ask .. I work for a school , and I was in charge to write an invitation card for mothers to come over , but I should do this in behalf of children .

Dear Mom,

so and so

Sincerely yours,

Your child .

I meant to be generalized so I didn't write the name of each child . I left it "Your child" so it is applicable for all mothers and save the hassle to write the name of more than 300 kids . And I will be able to have on card to be photocopied rather than have 300 cards to be printed with excat name of each child on the card .

My supervisor objected saying that it is a wrong and invalid to do so, If I want to use "sincerely your" I have to write the excat name for each child , and it is wrong to write "Yoru child" at the end .

What do you think ? please feed me back Smile [:)]

Anonymous

Regards, Yours sincerely, Invitations

Mister Micawber

#460334 Fri, 04 Jan 08 10:47 AM

Only by the strictest formal British business standards is 'Sincerely yours' used with 'Dear Mr Jones' while 'Yours faithfully' is used with 'Dear Sir'. This fine point can be gaily ignored in a casual note such as you are creating-- and after all, Mom is her name, isn't it?

Actually, in your letter from child to mother, even 'Sincerely yours' sounds overly formal-- why not just 'Love'? And if you do not have the time available to write an individual name on each, 'Your child' sounds just fine. With a little extra photocopying, you could sign half of them 'Your son' and the other half 'Your daughter'-- or you could leave blank spaces and have the kids fill them in in their own handwriting: 'Dear _______ ... Love, _________ '.

Mister Micawber

Regards, Yours faithfully, Yours sincerely

Haifaa

#460349 Fri, 04 Jan 08 12:13 PM

Hi there ,

I have a question related to this subject If I may to ask .. I work for a school , and I was in charge to write an invitation card for mothers to come over , but I should do this in behalf of children .

Dear Mom,

so and so

Sincerely yours,

Your child .

My supervisor objected saying that it is totally wrong and invalid to do so, If I want to use "sincerely your" I have to write the exact name for each child , and it is wrong to write "Your child" at the end . Is there any "Sincerely yours"'s rule limitting me to use this experession only when I declare the excat name of the sender ?

What do you think ? please feed me back Smile [:)]

Haifaa

Joined on Fri, Jan 4 2008

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Regards, Yours sincerely, Invitations

Mister Micawber

#460350 Fri, 04 Jan 08 12:18 PM

I just answered your Anonymous post on this same thread, Haifaa.

Mister Micawber

Regards, Yours sincerely

Anonymous

#465946 Fri, 18 Jan 08 06:55 PM

I'm assuming you have all the names in an M$ excel sheet somewhere?

If you do, and have the ability to use M$ Access(as well as some knowledge on how to use it) you could easily create personalized cards

Anonymous wrote:

Hi there ,

I have a question related to this subject I f I may to ask .. I work for a school , and I was in charge to write an invitation card for mothers to come over , but I should do this in behalf of children .

Dear Mom,

so and so

Sincerely yours,

Your child .

I meant to be generalized so I didn't write the name of each child . I left it "Your child" so it is applicable for all mothers and save the hassle to write the name of more than 300 kids . And I will be able to have on card to be photocopied rather than have 300 cards to be printed with excat name of each child on the card .

My supervisor objected saying that it is a wrong and invalid to do so, If I want to use "sincerely your" I have to write the excat name for each child , and it is wrong to write "Yoru child" at the end .

What do you think ? please feed me back

To the subject of Regards, etc... I've been noticing that a few people around my office are using 'Best Regards' or just 'Regards' in their signatures. I personally just have 'Thank You' in mine, since the majority of the time I'm emailing someone I'm asking them for help or information. I find the regards/best regards to almost sound hollow and phony. The majority of the emails sent are to people you don't know personally, and most likely never will go beyond those emails. In a more formal AND personal environment I could see the use of them....but as it is I just find them unnecessary formalities for my job.

Anonymous