Company headed paper

[Onthebrightside]

Yes, although they are the practices of a previous generation, there are advantages from time-to-time. With the use of ‘Letters’ to and fro (Sent via Email), the Project Files literally ‘Tell a Story!’ – Incoming correspondence is filed with outgoing. It also becomes easier to find historic documentation via the Hardcopy File.

I agree, electronically filing individual letters is easier to read through than the emails, particularly if you adhere to a filing structure, proj no., date etc.

About 20 years ago I worked in an architects where they had a complete systems meltdown, something to do with an overheated server. I had kept (against their wishes) paper copies of all our departments invoices for each of our jobs. The Director of Finance had advised me it was 'completely unnecessary ' a 'waste of company time' but if my director was fine with me wasting my time he didn't care if I wanted to 'be ridiculous'. It really hurt him to come and ask me for those files to update his system . They eventually managed to recover some of the other scrambled files, but it was a mess for the rest of the departments.

 

[SillyBill]

Routinely get asked for correspondence on company headed paper. Had to do one this week for our pension provider to update our company head office address. Common when dealing with solicitors, banks, insurers, finance providers etc. Also for setting up credit accounts with suppliers. I haven't used actual paper in over 5 years though (that is outdated IMO), all done by Word template, converted into PDF once drafted copy. I just had to wait until the paper copies had been used up before we could make the decisive jump! It doesn't prove an awful lot ofc but even still I don't see it much of a hassle if handling sensitive business information or issuing certain key instructions that it can be done without being written on a scrap of normal paper or an unformatted word document...filters out probably the bottom 10% of low IQ scammers I bet.