BeckyA
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« on: February 24, 2011, 06:40:46 pm » |
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I had to actually type a letter out today. It was the first "letter" I have typed in a very long time. I was just wondering if it was our company/my boss or is that normal? I am tending to think it is job specific and others must still type and send snail mail all the time. I figured I would ask here to appease my sense of curiosity! With email, voice mail, memo's, inter-office routing slips, how often do you actually send out a formal letter with a stamp! (We do send out tons of mail, but those are invoices, bills, collections, not "letter" type mail).
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SandiG
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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2011, 06:50:53 pm » |
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I send out formal letters a few times a year. It used to be much more but email has taken over. I think email is easier to organize, there can be a copy on the system and you dont have to keep a hard copy that can get lost, you can just do a search, easy to forward and share... I like email much better myself.
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gee4
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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2011, 08:06:50 pm » |
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It depends on the content of the letter and whether it needs to have an actual signature as opposed to an electronic one.
Not everything is accepted via email from a legal point of view.
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msmarieh
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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2011, 11:31:39 pm » |
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I do occasionally send them out but it's a very rare occurrence. We hardly ever get mail in either (woo hoo).
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JessW
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« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2011, 10:01:22 am » |
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I would say about a minimum of 20 formal letters per day sent by snail mail, although they are also sent by fax, scanned and emailed and/or by DX (document xchange used in the legal world in UK for those who have not heard of it!). That is company wide, and is the same for those we deal with!  |
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geminigirl
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« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2011, 03:29:23 pm » |
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I'd guess to about 20 or so letters a month on average. My current boss is a great one for email but it does depend so much on the person. Boss before last was a great letter writer - probably a 100 or so a month. But as times are changing, more and more goes via email. As Gee said, if it needs a hard copy, original signature, letter is the only way, even using pdf wouldn't be acceptable.
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Katie G
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« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2011, 05:30:12 pm » |
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We do send quite a bit of snail mail with stamps, but they are usually mail merges for things like invitations to events or appeals. We deal with a number of older alumni and many, while internet savvy, just prefer an actual letter -- particularly with thank you notes and after-visit correspondence. It's what they grew up with.
We also have many documents that need an actual physical signature - but they get sent by UPS or FedEx so they can be tracked.
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Katie G
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« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2011, 05:32:26 pm » |
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Meant to add that, now that I'm in my 40s and have been wearing corrective lenses since I was a child, I'm starting to find it physically tiresome to read large amounts of text from a screen. There are times I'd just REALLY prefer paper.
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geminigirl
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« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2011, 05:41:49 pm » |
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Meant to add that, now that I'm in my 40s and have been wearing corrective lenses since I was a child, I'm starting to find it physically tiresome to read large amounts of text from a screen. There are times I'd just REALLY prefer paper.
I think I agree with you - but at least you can make the text larger or smaller on a screen! Too often recently in dim restaurants, I've been struggling to read the menu and bringing it closer to or further away from the eyes helps not one jot! |
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