[jesselt]

Wow ._.


That is so vastly different from American business letters which are completely void of any talk that doesn't directly relate to what the message is. Letter's from companies don't even bother to identify a gender and just stick with "Dear Mr/Mrs" or "To whom it may concern"

If you started off your business letter with talk about the weather they likely wouldn't even bother reading the rest of it...

Also good to know about the ます ending; I always thought that it was more on the polite side.