Eliminate Ineffective Openings Copy

Common ineffective, old-fashioned openings to avoid:

• We are in receipt of your letter dated…
• We received your letter of…
• Attached for your reference, please find…
• Enclosed, please find…
• We wrote to you on…
• Our office would like to inform you…
• This letter is for the purpose of…
• This letter concerns…
• It has been brought to my attention that…
• In response to your letter dated…
• In confirmation of our phone conversation…
• This is to verify our telephone conversation of…

These space wasters only get in the way of communication. When you see them, you should be saying, “Oh no! Here comes Rambling Ralph!”