Apols for replying to my own reply, but it just got odder still.
I asked the secretary to a lesser, but still quite important person in the same organisation to send by email a copy of the letter that her boss said had been sent out, which mysteriously had also not arrived before Christmas.
The letter is dated 18 Dec, but the file was created at 10.04 this morning. The other "odd" letter was dated 8 Dec, but the file created on 7 Jan. I did not receive that by email until last week.
Is there any possibility that the sending organisation's IT system is causing this apparent case of @rse-covering, or are these two both telling porkies? What does seems possible is that they have copied them from say a network drive to a local drive, and that has given the file a new creation date.
Neither letter arrived by snail-mail.
Last edited by airborne_artist; 26th January 2010 at 11:20.