Archive about 'Mis-Addressed'
Address Not Required
If you’ve ever had a post office box, you’ve probably noticed that those “extra” four digits of a zipcode are the last four digits of your box number. Street addresses have those as well, but there can be many addresses that have the same 9 digit zip code. They are useful for doing things like [...]
More Image Addresses
Here are two envelopes that were addressed with images. You can find lots of on-line programs to make these kind of images at generatorblog.blogspot.com. In testing many of these images, we have had some postcards that were lost in the mailstream, but cannot reproduce the problem consistently. Upon resending lost cards, they always get delivered. [...]
Bad, Barcode, Bad!
This envelope has the wrong POSTNET barcode. It was sent from Baltimore to Atlanta, but we coded it for Hilo, Hawaii.
Church Sign Addressing
Here, we made a postcard using the image from http://churchsigngenerator.com/. The postcard took an additional 4 days for delivery compared to a normally addressed postcard mailed at the same time.
Meet the Flintstones
One day, I read somewhere that the postmaster of Bedrock, Colorado grew so tired of processing mail addressed to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble that they had a stamp made especially for rejecting such mail. I had to see this, so I mailed a letter to the the 850 person town of Bedrock. The results [...]