By Warm regards, Yours faithfully

To me, the formality in letter writing has lost it’s place and no one in the new generation seems to really know what is proper and what isn’t anymore. Everyone is using Outlook for business and copies the greetings and pastes them onto the next e-mail, at least it seems that way! I have never...

As was pointed out " yours faithfully " is out of style but it still is in use especially in British English. However, as was also pointed out, there are alternatives that are used in both British and American (North American) English. 1. More formal --- Sincerely yours, Yours sincerely, or...

Just my take on it. Let's look at the structure of an e-mail or a letter for that matter. Simply said you have 3 parts. 1. opening or greeting 2. body 3. closing or ending NOTE: greeting means hello and not good-bye. As was pointed out " yours faithfully " is out of style but it still can...

Just my take on it. Let's look at the structure of an e-mail or a letter for that matter. Simply said you have 3 parts. 1. opening or greeting 2. body 3. closing or ending NOTE: greeting means hello and not good-bye. As was pointed out " yours faithfully " is out of style but it still is...

Well, there are different schools of thought nowadays. However the basic rule is that when you use Dear Sir/Madam then you end with yours faithfully. When you know the name of recipient then use yours sincerely. General example: Dear Mr Brown, blah blah blah. Yours sincerely, Me. When...