Newsgroups: alt.snail-mail
From: edg@netcom.com (Ed Greenberg)
Subject: Things to Read from "your" Postal Service
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1993 05:50:19 GMT

After alt.snail-mail opened up, and these discussions started, I called
over to the mail PO here in San Jose and ordered up some publications
that I had seen, which will be of interest to lots of us who are into
systems.  

Perhaps I should have limited distribution to USA, but since we're all
enjoying learning about each other's countries, i didn't.

Publication 221:
"Addressing for Success"  This small publication is an end user guide to
addressing.  It covers such sections as:

	Who cares about the way your mail looks?
	How to address for good barcode scanning
	Common problems 
	State-Territory Abbreviations

Publication 25:
"Designing Business Letter Mail"  This is a Must-Have for anybody
tenacious enough to be reading this group for more than a week :-)

Top Level Chapoters include:

	Introduction
	Basics of OCR and Barcode Reading
	Physical Characteristics of Automation Compatible Letter Mail 
		("Machinability")
	Addressing for Automation
	Postnet Barcode
	Facing IDentification Mark (Fim) Patterns
	Preparing Reply Mail for Postal Automation
	Appendices

Publication 28:
"Postal Addressing Standards"

This one is over 100 pages of the right answers to just about all the
trivia we've been covering.  

All of these should be available by calling the Mailing Standards Office
at your nearest central or large-city post office, or from the National
Address Information Center at 1-800-238-3150.

Enjoy.
-- 
Ed Greenberg           edg@netcom.com        Ham Radio: KM6CG

Newsgroups: alt.snail-mail
From: cogorno@netcom.com (Steve Cogorno)
Subject: Re: Things to Read from "your" Postal Service
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1993 16:42:56 GMT

In article <edgCCtEvv.3zH@netcom.com> edg@netcom.com (Ed Greenberg) writes:
>After alt.snail-mail opened up, and these discussions started, I called
>over to the mail PO here in San Jose and ordered up some publications
>that I had seen, which will be of interest to lots of us who are into
>systems.  

I would recommend the Domestic Mail Manual.  If a postal employee ever gives
you trouble, just tell them the page and section of the DMM that supports
your situation.  It works :-)

-- 
Steve
cogorno@netcom.com