Trends Reviews and Recaps

I recently sent out a modest gift package for which three weeks later I received a perfunctory thank-you note, a perfunctory and, frankly, rather rude thank-you note.

“I have so much of this stuff,” I was told, in a note that included, if you can believe it, the word “trinkets.”

I’m so sorry to have bothered you.

I apologize for cluttering your mailbox.

If you don’t like the gifts or can’t use them, send them back.

[Ed.: No more calls. We have a winner! L.M. of Riverdale, N.Y.]