letter

a written message addressed to a person or organization

"mailed an indignant letter to the editor" the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech

"his grandmother taught him his letters" owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention)

"he followed instructions to the letter"

"he obeyed the letter of the law" an award earned by participation in a school sport

"he won letters in three sports" win an athletic letter set down or print with letters mark letters on or mark with letters

otheruses wiktionary A letter is a written message from one party to another. Letters are usually intended to be received by someone far away. Before widespread availability of typewriters and computers, letters were always written by hand. Nowadays, letters are only widely used by companies who send out letters to large numbers of people, who may not have access to the internet for e-mail. The term ''letter'' is sometimes used for e-mail messages with a formal letter-like format.

Advantages - Letters are still used, particularly by companies and advertisers. This is because of three main advantages:

No special device needed - almost everybody has a home, which means they are easy to reach. A letterbox is all that the intended recipient needs - not like e-mail or phone-calls where you need access to a computer and a telephone respectively.

''' ''"Catch-all"'' advertising- unlike e-mails, where the recipient needs an individual e-mail address to receive messages, addresses are not chosen (per se), and so with the help of postal services, delivering an advertisement to all homes in a particular area is not hard.

Physical record - ''' an important advantage of letters is that important messages that need to be retained (eg receipts) can be kept.

The letter-delivering process - Here is how a letter gets from the sender to the recipient:# Sender writes letter and buys a stamp, which he places on the front of the envelope.# Sender puts his letter in a postbox and does nothing more.# The National Postal Service for the sender's country (e.g. the Royal Mail in the UK or the US Postal Service in the US) empties the letterbox and takes all the contents to the regional sorting office# The sorting office then sort each letter by address and postcode, and deliver the letters belonging to a particular area to that area's post office. Letters belonging to a different region are sent to that region's sorting office, to be sorted further.# The local post office dispatches their letters to their postmen who deliver them to the appropriate houses. This whole process, depending on how for away the sender / recipient are, takes about 2-3 days. International mail is sent via trains and planes to other countries.

Letter Layout - The following is the normal way to set out a letter:(Note: This is the style in the UK. The United_StatesAmerican letter format is different.) !





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TIP: Can't have the two S together. Use: Sir/Faithfully Or: Name/Sincerely

letter.dabase.com - A Web form to Letter (PDF) generatorThe following is a typical American format for a business letter: !


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!http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Ha ndbook/BusinessLetter.html? University of Wisconsin Writing Center !Guide



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