Conventions change. Full stops used to be common after addresses or after dates
in letters but are now much less commonly used. It is, however, a rule that they are
not used after the name that ends a letter:
[typical address and date from a business letter]
Duffield Engineering
Netherfield Court
Longstone Road
Ableton
SH5 5TW
15 July 2002
Dear Supplier,
Note that a comma is normally placed after the name of the addressee (
Û
506d
below
).
Full stops are used in initials for personal names, though increasingly they are
omitted:
J.D. Power
Richard A. Johnston, Managing Director
A I Briggs
Full stops are also used after abbreviations. This practice is, however, becoming
less common:
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