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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do OM people send thank you for your hospitality notes after a dinner party? What if it was catered by Popeyes? Oh, wait... [/quote]

No. You wouldn't send a thank you note for a dinner party, Popeye's chicken or no. You would say "Thank you" before leaving. And that would suffice. Sending a thank you note is redundant under such circumstances. You don't need to thank someone if you already did so. If circumstances were such that you never got the opportunity to thank them in person the night of the party -- it was a large party and they were in a conversation with others when you had to leave, or they fainted and had to be carted off to the hospital, or who knows what -- then you could send a note saying "I'm so sorry that I didn't get the chance to thank you for the lovely party last night. I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the chicken -- my mother is from New Orleans and she always spoke about how wonderful Popeye's chicken is. It did not disappoint!" Or whatever.

But fifty years ago you might have sent a note to someone who hosted you as a guest, like you are from out of town and stayed with them. But that's because people mailed each other letters to keep in touch back then anyway given how expensive long distance phone calls were, and thanking them again for hosting you would be just an ancillary part of the note. You would have said "Thanks you so much for having us" in person before saying goodbye. You don't have to send a thank you note to repeat it. But if you regularly exchanged letters anyway, it would not be wrong to include "Thank you again for hosting us last month. We miss seeing your lovely cousin and drinking that raspberry lemonade." And might be weird not to. But no one sends letters anymore. So this just really doesn't apply. [/quote]

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