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N! Xau - 21 May 2005 16:17 GMT

Hi,

I want to write a letter to Mr. Brown who works for cabinet XYZ.
I want the envelope is open from him, only.
Can I write something like "CONFIDENTIAL" next the address, to improve the
chances?
Or anything else?

Please advice.

Thanks

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Molly Mockford - 21 May 2005 18:04 GMT

At 15:17:08 on Sat, 21 May 2005, N! Xau <nxauBASTACONLOSPAM@hotmail.com>
wrote in <UhIje.19975$795.612854@twister1.libero.it>:

>I want to write a letter to Mr. Brown who works for cabinet XYZ.
>I want the envelope is open from him, only.
>Can I write something like "CONFIDENTIAL" next the address, to improve the
>chances?

It depends entirely on the practices in that particular office (not
"cabinet"). If I were you, I would write "Personal, Private and
Confidential" on the envelope, since I have in the past worked in
offices where the only envelopes left unopened were those with all three
of those words! "Private" or "Confidential" on their own are likely to
be opened by Mr Brown's secretary or assistant.

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Erick Andrews - 21 May 2005 21:49 GMT

> At 15:17:08 on Sat, 21 May 2005, N! Xau <nxauBASTACONLOSPAM@hotmail.com>
> wrote in <UhIje.19975$795.612854@twister1.libero.it>:
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> of those words! "Private" or "Confidential" on their own are likely to
> be opened by Mr Brown's secretary or assistant.

I'd bet these days that even with "Personal" or "To Be Opened By Addressee Only",
it wouldn't fare much better. Sigh!

And if it were addressed to a high-profile "Cabinet" type, it could lay in the
anthrax or bomb lab for a while.

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Erick Andrews
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