Email Etiquette Golden Rules (23)

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"Where to Put Your Signature
Without a line sub-scripted "sign here", how do you decide where to place your email signature? Look here.
Your email signature is no longer than 4 to 5 lines of text; it contains the standard signature delimiter; it is no wider than 75 characters; it has all the wit in it that is also in you (and that's a lot). Now where do you put it?
Fortunately, placing your signature is probably the easiest part of having it in your emails, and that's not only — not even chiefly — because there are no clear-cut rules. I think the most appropriate place for your signature is right where you'd also sign a written letter.
Put your signature:
Ø  Right below the end of your text — in replies as well as in new messages.
Ø  If you include original messages using indentation and selective quoting, your signature will usually be right at the bottom of the message.
Ø  If you quote lazily by putting your message on top of the (un-fragmented) original message, your signature will usually be between your message and the original message you quote, just above the "--Original Message--" line.
PS:
Naturally, positioning your signature in the suggested places, gives you the option to include post-scripts (PS:) right below it.
Note, though, that some email programs and services treat anything below the signature delimiter specially: they deem it especially unimportant. So, as an alternative, you can include your postscriptum below "signing" your message's main text with your name, but above the email's signature."

References:
http://email.about.com/od/emailnetiquette/tp/core_netiquette.02.htm

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