I Say It’s Time To Go Back To The Old Fashion Way Of Saying Thank You!
I would say on the average I get about 200 emails a day. Some of which are very important, meaningful and frankly missed because I overlooked them. For the past few years I have noticed a trend. I have been getting a ton of thank you emails. Some of those emails are thanking me for interviewing a potential candidate while others were for helping people out. In comparison I get very few handwritten thank you letters. For the few that send them I say a job well done! I say way to stand out and frankly I think more highly of you by taking the time and putting in the extra effort.
You may ask yourself why that is. Well for starters, you need to have my address, you need to have a stamp and you need to have paper but most of all, you need to know what to say. I would bet lots of people freeze when they are trying to write a handwritten note.
If you really want to have a more meaningful impact of someone – I say it’s back to the old fashion way of saying thank you with a handwritten card!
What do you say?
- Do you feel more important when you receive a handwritten communication?
- Do you ever write handwritten cards?
- Do you think that emails are way too informal these days?
I look forward to reading your comments.
roger austin says:
I feel much better about receiving and sending hand written thank you notes. It means to me that you took the time to think about the thank you and the gift or assistance received really meant something to you.
i send all of my thank you notes in hand written form and i have taught my children to do so as well.
Jamie Sykora says:
I totally agree!!! The world has gone and gotten into a big hurry…everything is an instant form of communication/interaction – to the point the majority of our children have forgotten how to spell correctly because everything they write is a text acronym!!! When we have sent things to clients or vendors – I like to always put a small note in and sign our name just as a way of saying, “hey, you are really important to us”. Those small touches go a long way and speak volumes to a person’s character …all the way down to the character of an organization.
Even if it is important to send a quick email of gratitude – it only takes a minute to then follow it up with a hand written note to drop in the mail. Emails get skipped, deleted, or archived, but hand written cards I’ve received from co-workers, friends, interview candidates, etc. – I still have them tucked away in a box. I remember those people because they made an impact in a small way that stays.