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I am not sure the receiver's gender and Family name

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Dear teachers,

I want to write a thank you letter to the bus company for their help to my lost student card.
The company's manager is named Hisham B, but I don't know his/her gender and surname.

I don't know how to write the appropriate salutation at the beginning of letter.
Here are what I can think of:

Dear Hisham B
Dear Mrs B / Mr B (I guessed his family name starts with B but his company doesn not want to show it)
Dear Sir / Madam
Dear Hisham


Please help me, teachers.

Thank you.

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Re: I am not sure the receiver's gender and Family name

Post by Joe »

Tricky because I'm not even sure if Hisham is first or last name. If you can't phone up and ask the switchboard, you could use:

Dear Sir or Madam

Don't write Dear Sir / Madam. That looks very commercial.
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