There’s been a couple of interesting articles pop up about email signoffs this week. There was also a fun twitter exchange as a few people shared their practices. It really got me thinking about mine so here we go.
Kind Regards
I tend to use this in work or semi-formal situations where I intend to be friendly but don’t presume to know the person particularly well. I also use it at work if I am being “worky”. That is, I’m emailing information to a group of people rather than individuals.
Regards
Used in formal situations where I don’t know the recipient or the recipient has peeved me by doing something ridiculous. This is a work only sign off as that’s where the ridiculous things tend to occur.
Take Care
Used only with people I have met in person and call my friends or close relatives.
Hugs
Used very sparingly and only with people who I would actually give a hug to in real life.
Cheers
Never used in my entire emailing life and never will. I hate it.
Yours sincerely, Sincerely, Warm Regards, Best Regards or anything else not on this list.
Never used and cannot see a situation in the future where I ever will.
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I’m not much of an emailer at all. I rarely have to write them at work so for me it’s even simpler:
If it’s a functional email, you get “Regards”. If I’m sending to a friend, it’s “-Matt”. But if you’re my friend and you get “Regards” it’s probably because you put “Regards” on a past email or I’m worried about offending you (so don’t be offended)
you rarely have to write them for work? You are the luckiest person ever….without email I’m not sure what I would fill my time in with at work….it has become like an instant messaging system
Wendy
(no regards)
🙂