Finally, your business letter should be folded in three by folding the bottom of the page two thirds of the way towards the top, then folding the top of the page downwards. The letter should then be inserted into a business-sized envelope and clearly and neatly addressed.

The following is a sample of a real business letter:
Jonathan B. Rogers
Tianjin Foreign Languages High School
11 Nankou Lu, Hebei District
Tianjin  300230
PR China

October 16, 2001

Mr. Zhang
Principal
Tianjin Foreign Languages High School
11 Nankou Lu, Hebei District
Tianjin  300230
PR China

Dear Mr. Zhang:

We have been informed that our apartment building will be torn down soon, and that we will have to move to a new location.  We have also heard a rumor that we may possibly be relocated to live at the Tianjin Foreign Language Institute, while a building for the foreign teachers is being built. I am writing you on behalf of my family and myself.  I would like to express our desire to continue living here at our school on Nankou Lu in the Chinese teacher's apartment building.  We understand that there are currently four apartments available there.  We also understand that you are concerned for our safety, but I would like to share with you why we feel that living here in the teacher's building on Nankou Lu is better for us.

First, Mrs. Rogers and I have a son, whom we home school.  He comes to my office with me every day to do his schoolwork.  Thus, there would be three of us to be picked up every day and carted to the school.

Second, because of the greater distance between the two schools, and the much longer time needed to travel from home to the school here, we will have to rise up much earlier than we already do.  Even now, while living here on campus, we must rise at 6:00am in order to have enough time to take a shower, get dressed, get breakfast, eat it, and be ready to leave for the classroom building next door.   Maybe if we live at the Foreign Language Institute, we will have to rise at 5:00am or 5:15am in order to have enough time to get ready and then travel to the school here.   I feel that this is too much stress and strain for our son, my wife, and myself. ()