Navy Acronym/Title

[Old Sweat]

I fail to see why demanding one's entitlement to Esq or UE would make a bank clerk think you were a coward; a braggart, perhaps, but not a poltroon.

Either title, along with a toonie, will get you a cup of coffee just about anywhere in Canada.

 

[Pusser]

Academic post-nominals are not authorized under the Canadian Honours System. As I said before, there's nothing in the law preventing anyone from putting anything after their name (and I should have added: as long as they're not claiming an honour from the crown they haven't been bestowed). You're relying on a Treasury Board guideline about signature blocks and business cards; I'm invoking actual custom. There's no basis in custom for using academic post-nominals except in academic contexts.

Yes, you're right.  Academic post-nominals are not authorized under the Canadian Honours System.  That's because they're not part of the Canadian Honours System.  However, that does not mean that they are not authorized for use at all, which is what I'm getting at.  They are earned and whoever earns them has a right to use them as they see fit, regardless of whether someone else thinks it's appropriate or not.  As to whether it's customary or not, I reiterate that you need to get out more, or hang out with different people, because it happens all the time.  Do I sign letters to Great Aunt Gladys, "Love Snookums, CD, MA, Esq?"  No, but there are plenty of scenarios that are not directly related to any of these things where the use of all post-nominals would be appropriate.

I'll have to take your word on that since you don't cite an official reference and I can't find one, neither here (http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=67) at the Chancellery of Honours nor here (http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/ceem-cced/prtcl/address6-eng.cfm) at Canadian Heritage's Styles of Address.

You would see this if you were to receive an invitation to Rideau Hall for an Investiture.

Did they ask you to stop sending them mail?

I've never actually sent anything to the Palace.  I've only received an invitation to drop by for tea (along with 3000 other close friends of Her Majesty  ;D).