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Form Letter With That Special Touch

For reasons not relevant here, my middle name is Edward and, on some semi-formal documents, I appear as E. Edward.

Which leads to personal greetings that make me feel so special:

Form Letter Salutation
Form Letter Salutation

I’d be satisfied if they’d stop pretending they care …

Comments

4 responses to “Form Letter With That Special Touch”

  1. Daniel B. Martin Avatar
    Daniel B. Martin

    They DO care! They care enough to get your first initial right.

    Years ago, at PokLab Building 707, I had a chance encounter with my second-line manager. He greeted me by name and that made me feel so proud! It was the wrong name, but nonetheless he cared enough to use a name…

    1. Ed Avatar
      Ed

      One hopes the other name wasn’t attached to, say, a Bad Appraisal.

  2. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    I have a similar problem since I only use my second name whereas my first name (Iain) is suppressed. I receive a gentle drip feed of correspondence address to “Dear I,” or even more familiarly as “I,…”.
    Guaranteed to be rapidly routed to the recycling bin or spam folder in an instant.

    1. Ed Avatar
      Ed

      Anybody who calls me by my first name obviously got it by reading an Official Document; hearing it out loud puts me in DEFCON 3.