I will send a letter to your attention.

[tufguy]

1) I will send a letter to your attention.

2) I will send a message to your attention.

3) Please send all the details to my attention.

4) I will have to send an appeal to the attention of the reconsideration department so that it doesn't reach an incorrect place.

Please check my sentences. Please tell me if we need to use "attention" the way I have used here?

 

[Tarheel]

I'm having a hard time making sense out of this one. It seems like you are sending the person a message telling them you're going to send them a message.

 

[emsr2d2]

They're all incorrect because we don't say "to my/your/his attention". Use "for". Here are two ways of saying your sentence #3.

When you send the details, please mark the letter/email for my attention.
When you send the details, please mark the letter/email "For the attention of Tufguy".

 

[Annabel Lee]

In AmE, "to my/your/his/her/our/their attention" is commonly used; Tufguy could say:

I will send a letter and address it to your attention.​

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[tufguy]

They're all incorrect because we don't say "to my/your/his attention". Use "for". Here are two ways of saying your sentence #3.

When you send the details, please mark the letter/email for my attention.
When you send the details, please mark the letter/email "For the attention of Tufguy".

Americans say that.

 

[tufguy]

In AmE, "to my/your/his/her/our/their attention" is commonly used; Tufguy could say:

I will send a letter and address it to your attention.​

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Could you please correct mine?

 

[Annabel Lee]

Could you please correct mine?

This is not something that I'm accustomed to writing, but I think the safest way is to use the verb "address":

1a) I will send a letter addressed to your attention.​

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2a) I will send a message addressed to your attention.​

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3a) Please send all the details addressed to my attention.​

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4a) I will have to send an appeal addressed to the attention of the reconsideration department so that it doesn't reach an incorrect place.​

 

[Tarheel]

I'm confused. Do you not send emails to people directly? Do you send them to someone else?

If I get an email I assume it's for me. Who else would it be for?

 

[emsr2d2]

I'm confused. Do you not send emails to people directly? Do you send them to someone else?

If I get an email I assume it's for me. Who else would it be for?

So far, I'm the only person who has mentioned emails. The OP didn't. I added it in post #3 only because some email addresses are accessible by more than one person. For example, where I work, we have a generic email address that all staff can access. If someone were to email that address following, for example, a phone conversation with me, I would ask them to put "FAO: [my name]" in the subject line so that all recipients would know it was for me to deal with.

 

[tufguy]

I'm confused. Do you not send emails to people directly? Do you send them to someone else?

If I get an email I assume it's for me. Who else would it be for?

Insurance companies have different departments that take care of respective tasks that they have the responsibilities for. Like adjudication, appeals department, reconsideration etc. You have to be specific with who you are trying to approach so that nobody's time gets wasted or documents get misplaced.

 

[Tarheel]

@emsr2d2 already told me it's about snail mail.