Dear all…
Dear everyone…
Dear…
Emails have always seemed to me to be a very informal method of
sending mail. The minuscule ‘Hi’ and the nondescript ‘Hello’ definitely
do not suit all situations. Very occasionally, ‘Good morning/Good
afternoon….Mr/Mrs’ turns up; it’s easy enough to similarly respond, if I
know of the writer, though not if it is mail from the business.
Business emails are business communications like any that are delivered
by postal mail services. They just do not look like it, or, maybe, it’s
just they do not look like the business mail I have been used to.
If it’s a formal communication conventions state I should
respectfully
open with, ‘Dear Sir’, or, ‘Dear Madam’ or, a combined version of
both; I have never considered any particular business entity
dear to me, nor anyone in it with whom I may have developed a working business relationship. (Oh dear). Looking at terms of en
dearment, I am no further forward in creating alternative salutations for the purpose.
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I might feel less inhibited if I felt free to open with something
nicely terse at times. Huffing and puffing, I might just consider
dropping terms of endearment and begin, “Sir”, or, “Madam”. It’s the
worst I can allow myself to do. Undoubtedly, this is exactly the
reason for beginning a written correspondence in a traditionally,
accepted, mannerly, style, at all times. The moment your thoughts turn
to ‘dear….’ the system structure draws you into its conventional
framework. And dropping ‘dear’ to a curt ‘Sir or Madam’ only frames a
much more formal, but still a conventionally acceptable mailing. So
be it.
The written word speaks volumes.
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I have yet to find my associated email, another concern, so, I cannot be too jubilant. 
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