It also said that although the number of complaints about the ambulance service remained high, particularly over response times, the number of written compliments the service received outnumbered complaints.
By contrast, he said, a company unit that deals with federal student loan borrowers in default received on average "33 thank-you notes and written compliments per month for the compassion, understanding, and guidance of our employees who helped student loan borrowers resolve their default".
"Do not assume he knows the history of the country or its major points of contention," New York Times journalist Peter Baker writes, "compliment him on his Electoral College victory.
A handful wrote to compliment Radio Shack's service, and roughly twice that number wrote to denigrate it.
Marlowe took lengthy absences and the university was about to refuse him a master's degree when, in 1587, the Privy Council wrote to compliment his "good service" to the Queen on "matters touching the benefit of his country".
2.51pm: And Alan Whyte approves: "Seeing Paddy power mentioned reminded me to write and compliment them on having a boss that gets stuck in on a day to day basis.
They were uncommonly kind and encouraging, even Irving Berlin, who wrote to compliment me for casting I had done for 'Call Me Madam.' Then I was drafted into the Army, during the Korean War, and spent a year in Germany, writing a guidebook, but taking in whatever was musical in Stuttgart and Munich.
Mr. McFaul has been busy this week saying thank you — to the Ministry of Emergencies, which has pledged to deliver 27 tons of blankets for victims of Hurricane Sandy, and to television viewers who wrote to compliment him on his late-night talk-show appearance.
The book, "The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women and a 40-year Friendship," was based on an article suggested by one of the many women who wrote to compliment him on his column and to verify the phenomenon he described with the facts of their own lives.
Even Truman wrote to compliment his host.
You can write the compliment in a note that you leave for your loved one to find.
