英文メールの書き方:提出が遅れることを伝える

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予期せぬ事態により、今日中に提出を予定していたものが提出できなくなってしまった。

 

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新井さん、

まだ経費精算を済ませていなくて申し訳ありません。今日の午後に入力するつもりでしたが、諸事情で早退しなければならなくなりました。

明日朝一番で提出します。お約束した日までに間に合わず大変ご迷惑をおかけします。次回から早めに済ませておくようにします。

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Hello everyone. Welcome to E-mail Picks.
Today, I need to leave work early because

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I need to pick up my son at his
kindergarten,

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although I usually don't. My wife called
in and she said she realized that she

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needed to attend this really, really important meeting so I figured I should go pick up

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my kid. The problem is there is a form -
something to do with travel expenses -

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that I needed to fill out and submit to
the accounting department, and I was

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planning to do it this afternoon.
It would take about twenty minutes but

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now, because I have an emergency, I can't
do it anymore. So today, I'm going to

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write to the accounting department to
apologize that the form will take an

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extra day to hand in. And I'm going to
write this e-mail really, really quickly

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because I don't want my son to be upset
at me for making him wait for

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a long time. So here goes.
Dear Arai-san, I'm sorry I haven't handed in

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the travel expense report yet. I was
planning to do it this afternoon but

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something's come up and I need to leave the office. I will hand it in first thing

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tomorrow morning.
Please forgive me for not keeping my

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word. I will plan ahead better from next
month. Kyota. OK, so I think you

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noticed that I didn't mention the exact
reason I would not be able to hand in

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the documents. She doesn't need to know
details because anything will sound like

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an excuse. So I just wrote "something's
come up."

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And then, I committed to submit the
documents first thing tomorrow morning

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and apologize again for my shortcomings. I didn't forget to say how I will

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prevent delays in the future. So there
you go. An e-mail to inform that you will

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submit something late. I guess I'll buy
Arai-san some cookies tomorrow

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and apologize to her directly. So
anyway, thanks for watching. I'll see you

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next week.

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