Archive for September, 2006
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.
Holy Envelope
Here we sent an envelope with a hole in it. Since windowed envelopes pass through the mail stream without any problems, we weren’t sure if this “holy” envelope would cause a problem or not.
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.