Re: Stupid Human tricks: call an envelope company!

["thesatguy" <thesatguy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I don't know what the situation is at your particular Post Offices' is
but listen to this.

For years I used double window envelopes to send out statements and all was
well.  Then the Post Office upgraded their equipment and the statements
started coming directly back to my box instead of going out to customers.
Not a lot, just maybe 25 or 30 per month so you put another stamp on them
and mail them again.
After a while we noticed that the number started increasing and then it got
to the point where more than half started coming back.  So I ring the
customer service bell at the Post Office to complain and it turns out that
their new equipment simply reads the return address window instead of the
lower address window and sends the mail back to me.  In order for any of my
mail to go out the Post Office people are putting tape over the top window
on eash piece of mail so their crap equipment won't read it.
The Post Office has a new standard for double window envelopes and it
requires the little tiny upper window with a big blank space between it and
the lower large window or they can't guarantee your mail will go out.  At
some point all of the Post Offices will get their equipment upgraded and you
must use the new window envelopes OR you must print a barcode with each
address.  The equipment will read the barcodes and it understands that the
first barcode is the RETURN address and the second barcode is the OUTBOUND
address but they tell me you don't really need the second barcode as the
equipment simply looks for the next address after it sees the first barcode.
So in my case you can't just run down to Walmart and buy double window
envelopes.  Besides, my Epson printers can only print five or six envelopes
at a time before they squash one and screw up the rest so I can cuss the
darn thing for five minutes each time that happens.  And everyone with an
Epson printer knows exactly what I am talking about.


"Crash Gordon®" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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you have to fold them anyway...so why buy expensive pre printed envelopes??



"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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|
| Dave wrote:
| > I can't believe you guys!   You screw around trying to print things on
| > window envelopes, buy double-window envelopes at Wal-Mart, waste more
| > time trying to fold everything precisely, buy a new printer, and waste
| > two days trying to get your billing done.  All because you're too cheap
| > to order preprinted envelopes!
| >
| > Actually, the trick is to call an envelope company, not your regular
| > printer, and to order at least 2500 single-window envelopes.  You'll
| > find you can get your envelopes printed exactly the way you like them
| > for about $125.
| >
| > When you figure in the cost of blank envelopes, the cost of inkjet ink
| > or laser toner, and the cost of your time screwing around with printing
| > them, I think you'll find it's way cheaper to let the professionals do
| > the printing for you.
| >
| > It's just like alarms.  Let the professionals do their jobs, and quit
| > trying to be a DIY printer!
| >
|
|
| Lets see now, Jim R buys double window envelopes at $.05 each at
| Walmart and folds them so both addresses show through the windows. Once
| it's set up in the print commands and you learn where to fold ........
| it's just a routine.
|
| You buy single window envelopes (?), preprinted with return address for
| $.05 and (did you figure in shipping charges?) fold them so one address
| shows through the window (?). Or, how do you get the customers address
| on the envelope?
|
| ......... that doesn't sound like a big difference.
|