Ink ("wet") Signatures

[free_spirit_etc]

I have a question about signatures on letters. I assume that if a letter from an agency has a printed signature, or possibly a stamped signature - it could have come from anyone. And I know that letters from most agencies do not really carry the name of the person who actually wrote it.

BUT if the letter has an INK signature (or what Social Security refers to as a "wet signature") of the person, I am led to believe the letter was actually SIGNED by THAT person.

I have no idea if this is just MY misperception, or if it is a common belief. But my idea has always been that an ink signature meant the person actually signed the letter - and an ink signature with initials meant someone else signed the letter on the person's behalf (with the authority to do so) - and that letters that just go out from an agency UNDER the person's name carry no actual signature.

Am I off-base in this?

Free

[carlie]

Yes - I agree - and the point is ???

carlie

[Tbird]

there is the autopen Harry Truman used the first one i think, here's a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopen

Yes - I agree - and the point is ???

carlie

[Wings]

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I agree!!!!!

[free_spirit_etc]

Yes - I agree - and the point is ???

carlie

I may be taking your question the wrong way, but it seemed kind of harsh in tone to me. Might just be me though. But for some reason I am having trouble answerng it right now.

Free

Edited May 19, 2009 by free_spirit_etc

[Pete53]

There are a lot of rules about signatures. The VA is fairly consistent about allowing underlings sign for Managers. In a job that everything was considered legal secretaries could sign for their boss if the put their initials in the signature and the document would be considered officially signed by the signature although someone else actually did it.

Probably one of the lowest was Sec Rumpfeld using an automatic signature for letters of condolences for Military killed in Iraq and Afghanistan

[carlie]

free,

The question is what is the importance of having a signature

and wheter it was hand "wet" signed or a rubber stamp ?

If you feel it is something of importance to you, it may

also be important to other's.

I was not trying to be harsh to you.

It was just a straight forward question.

Sometimes I am just to the point, probably relative to working

on VA Claims, and in the VAola mind-set.

carlie