Sign-off

 Is ‘Kind regards’ the safest [sign-off]? Kind, with regards, yes. ‘Best wishes’ has become brusque. Don’t know you, still ‘Best wishes’. ‘Sincerely’? It’s a sound, at least. ‘Ciao!’ Too familiar. ‘Yours truly’- can there be ‘Yours untruly’? ‘Warm regards’, not sure, could be taken as an advance. ‘Very warm regards’, that’s virtually ‘Hot regards’. ‘Yours in anticipation’ could nowadays almost be coercion. ‘Yours ever’- it’s said without thinking; ‘ever’, or until the next tea break. While ‘Yours’ can sound like relinquishment of body, soul, and worldly possessions. Best to qualify with, say, ‘Yours faithfully’. When in doubt, old-fashioned is best.