Mass email

A family in our parish lost their 16-y.o. son one year ago. I went to his funeral and sent a mass card at the time. Now it is the 1-year anniversary of his death, which I know can be a very difficult time for the family. I’d like to send another Mass card — is that appropriate?

for example..

Greetings, Hello Everyone, Good Afternoon, Ladies and Gentlemen, etc???

It is a mass e-mail to a group of families that volunteer for our organization.

I got a new email account, so I’m sending out a mass email to my contacts to tell them to add my new email to their contacts. I have the emails of some people I don’t know well because I worked on a group project with them a long time ago. Is it weird/stalkerish if I send this mass email to them too? Some of them might not even know that I still have their email saved.

Whenever you read about submitting things such as resumes or manuscripts for books they tell you to not just mass send them to everyone but pick and choose. In respects to books they even say to send it to only one publisher at a time and then wait until you get a response to send it out to someone else. That takes forever!
Does this really benefit us or is it simply to help the people receiving submissions?
I mean is a job recruiter or publisher NOT going to give you something because you had mass sent prior?

I have a friend who shares her opinion on everything going on in the world. She blogs - sends her blogs out in emails, sends emails to remind every one that she has a new blog, sends out daily “My thoughts on…” various topics, sends out daily “quote of the day”, sends out political propaganda e-mails for her side, and even mass e-mails her friends ABOUT the happening in her other friends’ lives (I don’t know whether or not they care).

Do you know any one like this?

I work for a nonprofit charity where the marketing director sent out a mass email regarding a decrease in ad responses, saying “tough *****.” I thought his email was inappropriate, but I didn’t say anything.

there was a work function that some less popular people weren’t excluded from, I dealt with this by sending out a mass sarcastic email. Now the bully has it out for me.

What do you think when you get a mass email from a friend entitled “Happy Holidays from us”, that incls a link to a page that shows (brags) about their vacation, their new car, their new job, their trip to the Oscars in LA, etc.? I generally get a text only email from them each year, and do loathe its arrival. However, this year, they included pictures, too. I understand the lack of time which warrants a mass email–don’t agree with it, but understand. The issue is that a holiday card should be something wishing the recipient happy holidays, happy new year, etc., vs. a vehicle to brag about the material things you’ve acquired or enjoyed this past year. And no, am not jealous, it’s from two *** men, and I’m a woman who does pretty well for herself. Is it just me, or is this poor holiday etiquette?
on a side note, i hear from them quite often and already knew about all these things.

My husband and I were engaged for 2 years before finally deciding to elope last week. The main reason we did it was because a large wedding was out of the question and most of our family/friends would’ve been disappointed had they not been invited.

Would it be extremely tacky to send out a mass email or ecard announcing the news to distant family and friends? What is a cheap alternative, if you consider this too tacky. Cost is an issue for us so the cheaper the better. Thanks for all the help in advance.
A postcard is a good idea. You mean like a photo postcard or just any design in general?
Red~thanks for the firsthand experience. I’m opting for postcards now.
THX for all the advice! Oh and snapdragon~I wasn’t going to “spam” everyone.

In our office we have a lead position, essentially the one in charge before you get to upper management. This person tries very hard to be “politically correct” in all her tasks due to an utlrasensitive staff who often take things to heart, etc. We are all on a mass email, when little things become a trend, sometimes in effort to keep things on track there will be very kind reminder emails, acting as a reminder to keep the group on task.

My concern? This lead is a new person, 2 months old in the position. One of our staff keeps blasting personal emails back to this person and “letting her have it”. Yesterday this happened agian where a group email was sent to us, and the hot head “let her have it” again.

I understand she was in the administrator’s office yesteray, and it’s well clear she told them this is harassement. SHe has recieved 3 emails of this nature, one only after being in her new position 2 weeks, this last one made personal pokes about some of her errors, and of couse it’s cc’d to the entire management team. Her claim of harassement can be supported as I hear know that she has journaled verbal interactions with this person, who often dispells personal issues with other staff in open areas.. well heard around. The email though attacking in a sense to a semi suprior… is harassement or an attemp to intimidate?