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Closing options

  • Thank you

    Votes: 7 35.0%
  • Best

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Sincerely

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Cheers

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Respectfully

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Regards

    Votes: 4 20.0%
  • -(your name)

    Votes: 7 35.0%
  • Nothing

    Votes: 2 10.0%

  • Total voters
    20
For those in the military, it's always (supposed to be!) "Respectfully," or "Very respectfully,", oftentimes abbreviated just R/, or V/r/,  And whoa to them who get it backwards.  But not me...  I don't play that!
That's when I picked it up...when I was in Afghanistan.  I kept the "v/r," because it seems like a good generic closing that works for everyone.  Sometimes I'll add a "Thanks, Jeb" before it or change the "v/r," to "Thanks," if it's something that's more informal.

 
I got out of the military in 2001, I don't recall sending a ton of emails back then to be honest, mainly I just recall the BN XO calling to cuss me out over the phone;)

 
There are also those with the "Consider the environment before printing this email" signatures.  

How about you stop putting that there so that when I print the email, it's not 2 pages longer than it should be.

 
Simply stated, I do no use a standard sign off.  Each situation warrants its own and thus I let the content of the email dictate.

 
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