The old way and the new wayThe Complaint Tablet to Ea-nasir – the World’s Oldest Complaint Letter. Old Babylonian, 1750BC, found in the city of Ur, Iraq.Some 3750 years ago, Nanni (a copper merchant) sent a cuneiform script on a clay tablet to Ea-nasir (a smelter) complaining about the rude treatment and poor quality of the copper ingots his agent was offered, and how he (Nanni) now had neither copper ingots nor his money. Back then, that was basically how we vented, how we wrote, how we reco...