compliment slip BrE , also: compliments slip BrE

Sandy suddenly remembered where he'd heard the name; it had been on a compliments slip.

To this end he recommends that compliments slips be size A6 paper.

Compliments slips, which are informal, can sometimes substitute for more formal letters of reply.

There is no fixed size for compliments slips.

These are the compliments slips used by the University of South Australia.

That wasn't a wee compliment slipped through there, was it now?'

Often this process is applied not only to business cards, but also to letterheads, notepads, labels and compliments slips.

Since they are informal, compliments slips are not substitutes in those cases where a formal letter is required for legal reasons.

'Cos all our reports probably go out with compliment slips, all our.

However, Mercer returned the original certificates via normal letter post without a covering letter or even a compliment slip.

Miller recommends size A5 for stationery that doubles up as both compliments slip and headed letter paper.

The inclusion of compliments slips in responses to such routine requests is often seen by businesses as a necessary step in maintaining good public relations.

-examples of compliment slips.

DL (compliments slip size)

Hailey recommends an alternative strategy for providing a personal touch: removing the salutation from compliments slips, thus forcing the entire note to be hand-written.

She tore open the envelope; there was a compliments slip from the Bursar's Office and several letters addressed to Fabian at Cambridge.

Some printers offer starter packs containing small quantities of the main stationery types that a small business is likely to need - letterheads, compliments slips and business cards.

From letterheads and compliments slips to business cards and invoices, your stationery will be seen and kept by customers and will influence the way they see your business.

Yet when her salary cheque arrived she opened the envelope with trembling, hopeful fingers, and wept to find that the only other enclosure was a formal compliments slip from the accounts department.

They may vary in size from the size of a business or visiting card, from which compliments slips originally evolved, to the size of a whole sheet of letter writing paper.

The December 2006 limited-edition cover of Wallpaper* magazine featured one of his last works omitting his calligraphic signature in the compliments slip accompanying his completed work for he was too frail by then.

In building contract work, for example, a drawing or a copy letter sent to a contractor with a compliments slip attached is not a formal instruction to perform the work on the drawing or letter.

For example, the response to a request for a product catalogue or a price list may simply be the price list or catalogue, with a compliments slip attached, rather than with a formal letter of reply.

Falconer states that a compliments slip should never be sent instead of a personal letter, and that it is better to send a personal letter in response to a customer enquiry, because it provides a personal touch.

I got a weekly allowance [forget how much] which helped pay for childcare for a year and paid for my first load of letterheads, business cards and compliments slips and several years' supply of drawing paper.