Sending a thank you note with the gradution announcement?

Question

My step-brother is in the Navy and stationed in Guam. Last week he sent me $100 for my graduation and said if I was like him, I would need some extra cash going into graduation.

SO I immediately sent him an email and thanked him.

Today we got our announcements. I've also ordered photo invitations for the graduation party (but he already said he cant make it). I'm sending him one anyway, and we are putting these inside the announcements.

So my question is should I send him a separate thank you note with its own envelope or should I send it as part with the announcement and invite?

Answer 1

Personally I would prefer a separate thank you note as it shows that the person took the extra time to express their appreciation. Sending a thank-you note in the same envelope as photos, etc. suggests that the note was an afterthought.

Put yourself in the other person's place and you had sent the money. Would you rather have a separate thank-you note or just a note enclosed with other items?

Answer 2

I would put the thank you envelope with the announcement and invite along with a general note about how things are going at home. Kind of like a care package. Sending things overseas can be expensive, so why n ot put everything in one envelope so he receives everything at once? This will be less handling for the mail room and he will be guaranteed to get everything at once. It just makes sense to send one mailing rather than two or three (thank you, invitation, announcement).

Answer 3

Thank about it. If I sent nice gifts to several of my nieces and nephews, and some took the time and trouble to send me a thoughtful handwritten thank you letter and some did not -- toward whom might I be more likely to direct future generous impulses, those who let me know they appreciated my gift or those who did not?



Knock yourself out thanking your brother, man. Send your letter as if it's something special to you, not just some offhand note that you stick into something else as if it were a train schedule.

Answer 4

Write him a short letter and give him an extra thank you in addition to what you would normally send him.

Answer 5

you can include a separate hand-written note thanking him again

Answer 6

you might as well save your stamps and send them together