Message #61536

[colint]

I understand that Gee, and it's what I normally do.  However, things haven't always been that way and when it was normal to include punctuation your example would have been

Mr Joe Bloggs,
Managing Director,
J.B. Enterprises,
TOYTOWN.
TT1 0AB

Dear Joe,

(Note no fullstop after Mr in UK, even when using full punctuation - because the abbreviation contains both the first and final letter of the original word.  Also, the full stop (instead of a comma) after the final line of the address, excluding the post code - which has never had any punctuation, nor should it be underlined.)

However, at the other end of the letter, the complimentary close always had a comma after it (in full punctuation), but I can't remember if the author's name had a full stop after it or not.  Further, if it did, but the person's title or their department was typed underneath his/her name, did the name now get a comma and the full stop go after the title/dept?

ie

Open punctuation is

Yours sincerely

A N OTHER
Operations Manager

but was full punctuation

Yours sincerely,

A.N. OTHER,
Operations Manager.

Or what?

I'm sure it doesn't matter to most, and so long as most of the punctuation is there, bossie prolly won't mind/notice - but I have an enquiring mind and need to know!