Re: Stupid Human tricks

["Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Box of 80 double window envelopes is under $4 at Wallymart.

Jim Rojas


"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jim Rojas wrote:
>> I use double window envelopes I buy from Walmart.
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>> Jim Rojas
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> Don't know how much the prices would vary from area to area but I'm
> paying $36.00/$38.00 per 500 from Staples. Office Max is about the
> same. In the past, I've looked on line and with shipping, even from the
> discount houses, it all winds up just a few dollars different. Haven't
> checked on line lately or Walmarts either. I just think they're going
> to remain at that price until someone comes out with a more convenient
> method to lable envelopes and co-ordinate it with the contents.
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> I started out with lables, when I first started. Something always got
> screwed up with a mailing or trying to print just a few lables because
> some got screwed up or something.
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> The all-enclosed invoice with the tractor fed paper was pretty costly
> also but it sure was convenient. But now you can't get a tractor feed
> impact printer, that'll print clearly through all the copies
> anymore..... for a reasonable price... that is. I had a Toshiba pin
> printer that I think would have printed through a piece of cardboard.
> Printer cost $2000.00 back in the 80's. It was 130 column wide. Just
> threw it out about a year or so ago. No one had parts to repair the
> print head, anymore. In all that time, the only thing to fail on it was
> the print head ...... once in the 90's. By the time it went again, they
> didn't make parts for it anymore. Thing weighed about 40 pounds.
> Shoulda bought a spare print head for it, I guess.
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> Anyway, the all enclosed invoice got too expensive, so that's when I
> went to ink jet, which didn't work for me. Then back to the impact
> printer with double window envelopes. Now, laser with double window
> envelopes........ which is more expensive than the impact printer what
> with toner supplies, paper and all. Impact printer had real inexpensive
> ribbon and inexpensive tractor feed paper.
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> I put it out on top of the garbage can by the curb for pick up and
> couldn't keep my self from watching them "just throw it in the back of
> their damn ol truck, like a piece of garbage"   "Sniff sniff" I though
> maybe they'd just sort of, kind of ... ya know ... "place" it .......
> Ya know what I mean?   But they just THREW IT!  "Sniff" Every once in a
> while, I come across an old ribbon cartridge or a piece of the edging
> from the tractor feed paper  an ...... an ..... SNIFF ......
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> OHHHHH God! I'LL JUST NEVER FORGIVE THEM!
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> ....JUST LEAVE ME ALONE .......I DONT WANNA TALK ABOUT IT ANYMORE!
> LEAVE ME ALONE ... I SAID ...... DON'T, DON'T ........ JUST LEAVE ME
> BE....
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> I .. I'LL BE ALRIGHT IN A LITTLE WHILE.  SNIFFFFFFFF!
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