Typo in mass business letter...oh no!?

[coreanchick15]

I wrote a mass business letter to be sent out to almost 2,000 people. There have been several drafts as you would expect there to be. My direct supervisor had be go to an upper management meeting a few weeks ago and present my first draft. Everyone liked it, and of course let me know any corrections I need to make which I did. This week before I did the final version, I sent around a draft to everyone in my office for them to proofread. I had be looking at it way to long and could not catch mistakes as easily anymore. My direct supervisor had the draft for a long time, so I went to see if he had looked it over and just hadn't gotten it back to me yet. Well, he had not looked at it but said that if everyone else who looked at it said it was ok, then it was ok with him for me to begin printing the 2,000 letters. Please note that my boss is notorious for not doing things I am learning from my co-workers and from my own experience thus far with him. I looked over the letter one last time before I printed and noticed that I had left out a very important section that was in the first draft but for some reason was left out of the final draft. I had the section saved in another file (an older version of the draft) and just copied and pasted it into the final version. Today, my direct supervisor asked me to give copies of the letter to our director (my supervisor’s boss) and the 2 top management personnel over our department which I did. After returning from a break, our director left his letter on my desk with a typo circled in the section that I copied and pasted. The work “the” was in there and should not have been. I removed it from the template and made another copy for our director. Later, I receive an email from my direct supervisor telling me not to send any more letters out until he tells me and my direct supervisor’s email also included a forwarded letter from our director. Our director said that one of the top management personnel found a mistake in the letter (I am assuming it what the “the” in the letter) and our director’s signature is on the letter. Our director wants to meet with my supervisor in the morning to discuss the situation. I went back to the file where I copied the missing section and it had the “the” in it but it also had a couple of words after that made the sentence make sense that were not in the final version. I have no idea how these got deleted out of the final version because I do not really remember deleting the words after “the.”

I know I should have had someone read it after I had added the section back, but I did not think it was necessary since the file where I was copying it from was perfect. I am not sure what to do and I do not know what is going to happen. Please help!