PPing ...............

[carrielgreen]

I wonder if anyone can help - a collegue has asked me what the PP stands for when signing a letter for someone else - I'm not sure... Can anyone help???

Thanks

Carrie

[flyingfingers]

I believe it means "by proxy."

[andream]

it does mean by proxy but the actual definition is "Per Pro" or Pro Personna, (thanks Allison!) depending on your sources. and the "PP " abbreviation should be used before the signature.

From the latin:  pro : (+ abl.) in front of, before /on behalf of, for.

Edited by andream on 15/11/02 11:10 AM.

[bethalize]

Do people still do this? My last boss told me just to write her name, unless it was a legal document or personal letter.

Bethalize
Deskdemon Forum Board Staff

[aberdeensecretaries]

'fraid so........

on occasion

Pam

  www.Aberdeen-Secretaries.co.uk  

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[chris68]

If we are signing for someone else the signer always uses their own name and puts "for" in front of it.  Just lets the person reading it know that it was signed for someone else and not by the person it was meant.

Chris68
Deskdemon Forum Board Staff

[deedee]

We still do this too, on occasion; but we sign the other person's name, then put a slash and our initials.  Now that I think of it, was this ever a standard procedure?  I hadn't heard of the "pp" being used that way.

[blufire21]

I've been told to sign like this:  Big Boss 1/ey.  Now if it's a legal doc. I don't sign at all.  I just don't do that.  If they don't like it, then tough.


Ellen in TX

[ControlledChaos]

We very rarely use pp, instead we write (dictated by A.N.Other and signed in their absence) underneath their name.  That way recipients know that the letter was from the writer.

Val

[alisonfaebeith]

"pro persona" (Latin)

[carrielgreen]

Thanks for your help everyone....