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Title: What signature closing do you use?
Post by: donnap99 on December 10, 2002, 02:51:29 pm
I'm sending a hand-written note to someone, and it seems that these days the closing "Sincerely" has been replaced with "Regards"  What other closings do you use?  

Regards,

Donna


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Title: Re: What signature closing do you use?
Post by: countrigal on December 10, 2002, 03:18:35 pm
I still use Sincerely.  If it's personal, I might use others, more specific to the person/reason I'm sending it, but the good stand-by for me has been Sincerely.

CountriGal
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Title: Re: What signature closing do you use?
Post by: chris68 on December 10, 2002, 03:37:22 pm
Same for me--I still use Sincerely.

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Title: Re: What signature closing do you use?
Post by: oceangirl on December 10, 2002, 06:17:10 pm
Dear    Donnap99
Here what I think:

I assume it is a business letter.  so I would put,

Dear Mr smith, or Dear Robert,

Yours Sincerely,

Georgina Morton

Dear sir ,etc

would be
Yours Faithfully,


Depends on who it is and how well you know them.  If that helps at all?
Either way

Have a wonderful Christmas!





George.


Title: Re: What signature closing do you use?
Post by: workerbee2 on December 11, 2002, 06:00:41 pm
It really depends how formal the letter is, and how well I know the person it's going to.

I still like "Yours truly" and "Sincerely", but for less formal letters I use "Regards" or "Best Regards".  

As long as everything is typed and formatted correctly, I make my own style.  

Still a bit of a rebel,

Elaine



Title: Re: What signature closing do you use?
Post by: raindance on December 12, 2002, 02:28:49 am
If a letter has to begin with "Dear Sir", I use "Yours faithfully" in closing.  Otherwise it depends on how well I know the person to whom I am writing.  I may write "Dear Mr Smith" and close with "Yours sincerely" or, if I know the person well "Regards" or "Kind regards" for someone I know very well.   I tend to "top and tail" my letters too, which I expect is a bit old-fashioned.  

Raindance