Article: Form letters: The good, the bad, and the ugly. (Claims Communication).

Article: Your form letters may be giving wrong message
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 8, 2002 ;     645 words ...BUSINESS SPEAK Your form letters may be giving...business uses form letters. Clients and customers...and the basic form letter provides that...business see the form letter as our "friend...valuable. Collect the form letters your company uses...reviewed every ...

Article: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Business Advice Column.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  July 8, 2002 ;     662 words ......every business uses form letters. Clients and customers...and the basic form letter provides that quickly...business see the form letter as our friend...valuable. Collect the form letters your company uses...reviewed every other form letter we were using ...

Article: Think It's New? Think Again.(signature machines)(Brief Article)
Popular Mechanics;  March 1, 2000 ;     401 words ......Attention [Your Name Here]: Computers help make today's form letters seem personal--well, sort of. Over the last few...their brothers to insert personalized text into form letters, and even address envelopes in fake bad-handwriting...sophisticated. Signatures, checks made out to you, and ...

Article: DEFEATING THE PURPOSE OF LETTERS
The Boston Globe;  February 5, 2003 ;     253 words ......LETTERS PUBLISHED AND HAS SENT FORM LETTERS TO CONGRESS, I WAS INTRIGUED...OP ED, FEB. 3). SENDING FORM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SEEMS WRONG...and process of sending a form letter versus writing an individual letter. When I fire off a form letter, I am lending support ...

Article: APOLOGIES FOR ALL OCCASIONS A MARKETABLE IDEA
Post-Tribune (IN);  August 10, 1987 ;     700+ words ......THE PRINTED VERSION. I am planning to market a book of form letter apologies for use by businessmen, politicians and private...sales for the book. Some randomly chosen samples of the form letters to be included in "Mea Culpa" follow. None may be reproduced...madam, * was neither practical nor ...

Article: The art of writing: although claims personnel are greater exposed to written communications with clients and claimants, insurer underwriting staff share many of the same functions in the communication chain
Canadian Underwriter;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......underwriter's letter--including form letters, many of which have been in...letters is incalculable. The form letter Here is an actual and typical...risk breaking away from a form letter to more fully describe...That is why no amount of form letters will ever compensate ...

Article: Neglect policy revised DSS: No charges filed before parental input
The Boston Globe;  March 29, 1997 ;     602 words ......without interviewing them, then send form letters saying incorrectly that family interviews...prohibited caseworkers from altering form letters, and will begin personalizing most...on line this August. Sweitzer got a form letter informing her the state had "found...Carlisle believes ...

Article: WHOSE COMMENTS ARE THEY?
The Boston Globe;  February 3, 2003 ;     700+ words ......discover that they ran GOP form letters. Most papers, the Globe...different, really, than a form letter sent to Congress? Here are...that the Globe frowned on form letters. "It is a convenient way...said one. Another said the form letter she sent expressed ...

Article: Clarification on letter policy
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  April 27, 2004 ;     54 words ......letter about President Bush published in the Weekend edition was a form letter circulated on the Internet. The Ledger did not know that at the time...newspaper by mail, fax or E-mail are original work. We do not publish form letters.

Article: Using the Internet as a tool for Rx sales
Pharmaceutical Representative;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......maintains a database of form letters answering the most commonly...reps is the use of these form letters to answer very specific...services will try to find a form letter already in the database...blending of two different form letters into one. If a form ...

Article: What's a teacher to do?
NEA Today;  February 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......two-part series. You may have already received one of the form letters. A parent writes to the superintendent or building principal...and have given my written consent for their use." One form letter that surfaced in Utah lists 111 taboo subjects including...and "Group Dynamics." Another of the ...

Article: FORM-LETTER E-MAILS ARE A MARVEL ON EITHER END.(LOCAL)
The Virginian Pilot;  October 31, 2003 ;     571 words ......Free World as the top prize. Here's the truth about form letters: Newspapers pay as much attention to a stack of form letters as a politician pays to a stack of form letters, which is about the same attention that you would pay to a stack of form letters from a ...

Article: `Anyone can fill out a form letter'
The Nelson Mail;  November 13, 1998 ;     518 words ......and the conservation board will look beyond the stack of form letters as they consider the Abel Tasman National Park foreshore investigations. A total of 1794 form letters based on misleading and incorrect information are no basis...make reasoned decisions. Anyone can snip, sign and post a ...

Article: HOLIDAY CHEER OR HOT AIR? LETTERS: FORMS LISTING YEAR'S FAMILY ACCOMPLISHMENTS WEAR THIN ON SOME.(News)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  November 23, 2007 ;     610 words ......feel like a year-end loser. But while holiday family form letters can turn off some readers, more than half of recipients...them or hate them. Personally, I like receiving longer form letters. They're boastful, lauding every family accomplishment...Each year he received mention in his mother's ...