What’s the worst email greeting?

One commentator says ‘to whom it may concern’ takes the crown. Can you think of a worse one?

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There are a lot of terrible ways you could start an email, but is “to whom it may concern” the worst?

Some people certainly think it’s the bottom of the barrel, including Diane Gottsman of the Protocol School of Texas. She thinks the outdated greeting “sends the wrong message,” according to a Business Insider article.

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