Should office memos necessarily start with mentioning another office memo's date? Most of the office memos I type do not contain references to any significant date or dated memo.
At the government-owned hospital I work, even desk-to-desk memos may contain overelaborate sentences, appear full of "bells and whistles" or seem overly cutesy. As long as he does not have fingers pointing at him, a guy may resort to lenghty, long-winded, invectives and still load them with passive verbs just to say or "inform" that all his ducks can swim.
"With renewed praise to your honorable, radiant semblance, we hereby come to inform you that we have today adopted the measures we should have adopted a long time ago bla, bla, bla," reads one such interdepartmental government office memo. "With equally renewed praise to your most honorable, radiant semblance, we hereby acknowledge receipt of your memo but thank you for the measures adopted. We now beg to go if you will let us." Yes, the wording takes some getting used to. As it does today. Earlier letters, however, went so far as to digress in excess of what they really meant. They might have gone longer than this pragraph!
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