No thank you
Sir: Karen Robinson stopped short of telling the full story of her party (`No return to sender', 28 November).
What I want to know is, did she receive any thank-you letters, notes or even tele- phone calls over the two or three days after the event? For the lack of these is, in my experience, becoming increasingly wide- spread as an even more pernicious lapse in manners.
Am I alone in feeling hurt when, having gone to a great deal of trouble to entertain and having seen my guests off with fulsome thanks and praise, there is a deafening silence afterwards? Call me old-fashioned, but I like to send thank-you notes and have always assumed that others did too. Basic good manners, my mother used to say.
But no, along with the failure to RSVP before the event, party guests these days also think it's all right not to bother to drop a quick note afterwards. In these days of e- mails and faxes it should be even easier. What is the world coming to? Perhaps Mary Killen can explain.
Annie Gurton
12 Penrose Terrace, Penzance, Cornwall
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