Customer Care

[NigelSparkles]

@LavenderLadyKY  Geez, you must live a sheltered life if this is what appalls you. 

Get over yourself and move on. 

[sunsetbeach]

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@LavenderLadyKY wrote:

I was appalled to receive a QVC e-mail with "Free Shipping thru" in the reference line. 

Thru is NOT an abbreviation for through.  Thru is used to reference drive-thru lanes at fast food restaurants, banks, and pharmacies. It is used on traffic signs to save space as in "no thru traffic" or "no thru road."  It is used to describe a special kind of hiking as in thru hiking.  These are the only acceptable uses of thru.   For the most part, thru should be shunned in writing as it is not a substitute for through. In all formal writing or formal communications like business letters, resumes, research papers, legal documents, marketing writing, broadcast writing, letters, and so on, through should be used.  People of the United States are violatiing good grammar by the overuse of thru in writing where it should be unacceptable.  Take note that in British English thru is an incorrect spelling,  The way QVC used thru in the reference line of your e-mail is NOT one of the acceptable uses of thru in American English as you are not talking about road signs, or lanes at banks, pharmacies, and fast food joints, so your reference line used the incorrect word. You are a large corporation and I am sure you do have some British customers now living in the USA.  They would find this e-mail horrible. I spent 30 years writing technical and marketing documents and I find this horrible.  Hire an editor to edit your e-mails before you send them out to avoid mistakes like this. 

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  Hon, you need a hobby.

[PansyBoo]

I truly hope you are able to make it thru this trauma. 🙄

[Starpolisher]

@LavenderLadyKY 

As a retired teacher, I have to say, I agree! It bothers me also. Makes me cringe and wonder where people went to school. If you think this is bad, don't look at Instagram or Facebook. Talk about, "Grammarphobia!" It's like there are no rules at all! And to the Nay sayers... "Yes, I'm part of the grammar police too and proud of it!" I learned it correctly and yes, I try and use it that way. I appreciate being corrected. Only a fool would not!

[They Call Me MR Wilkes]

TAKE NOTE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES!

Ya couldn't make this stuff up if ya tried.

Sounds like the lecturing from the dude in "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

[Wiscfan3]

@LavenderLadyKY  You are absolutely correct, but nobody cares and it doesn't really matter so let it go.

[MaverDaver]

You need a hobby - got too much time on your hands!

[Group 5 minus 1]

Does the "n" really need a cap?

[World Traveler]

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[Sage04]

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@Desertdi wrote:

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@DrakesMomma wrote:

Hey! How about them Cleveland Browns?!

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@DrakesMomma    I dunno...what about da Bears?

@Desertdiand @DrakesMomma   no no no how about them Buffalo Bills???

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