letter to an editor

When you live in a small town...be careful when you send a letter to someone who just happens to be a newspaper editor. (S)he may inadvertently mistake the "Letter to an Editor" as a "Letter to the Editor." I woke up this morning a bit surprised to see that a letter of mine had been published in the editorial section of our local paper - the Bainbridge Review. Since I hadn't written a letter to the paper, it took me a moment to realize that my team at work had recently sent a very similar letter out to 2000 local residents under my signature. One of these residents, it turns out, just happens to be the editor of our local newspaper. Apparently, he assumed my letter wasn't for him personally, but instead was meant as a "letter to the editor."