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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: Shattered Soldier on June 25, 2011, 09:33 pm
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I've been consistently getting these envelopes in the mail that have printed addresses on them, however, these printed addresses are affixed to the envelope using packing/scotch tape. I have to tell you, they don't look like regular mail at all to me. Here's a suggestion, try taking the time to send the entire envelope through the printer, thus printing the address and return address in one shot, right on to the envelope. Try it, its easy, and looks a hell of lot better.
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Or use printer labels.
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I got myself a dedicated labelprinter with 600dpi. It makes the coolest pro looking labels :D
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Yes scotch taped addresses are not professional IMHO.
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Or print on an A4 page and use letters with the window in them. That looks the best to me. It's also very easy.
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Do envelopes domestic sends withing the same country that have been hand written from person to person usually make it ?
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Do envelopes domestic sends withing the same country that have been hand written from person to person usually make it ?
No, not at all. Domestic business mail with printed shipping labels is by far the majority of the mail.
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I went in and asked a guy at the post office (whom i personally know) what the best way to ship priority with delivery confirmation. Btw, Im not sending my stuff from this post office, I will do it from another city. He told me to print the address out on my laser printer and tape it on the priority envelope. I picked up all the bubble mailers that I will need, etc. I told him that I am sending business envelopes. I will see how they look. Im sure they will look better than hand written. But I don't want it to look hokie, either. Im sure Ill tweak the way that I do it as I go along.
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Laser printers shouldn't be used unless you paid for it with cash. They leave their serial number on everything they print. And taping the address to the envelope looks really unprofessional, worse than handwritten imo.
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Not only did I pay cash for my laser printer, I purchased it from a company that was going out of business years ago. Almost like a yard sale type of thing. But I thought that the laser printer only printed the serial number if it was a color laser. I think I read that it embedded yellow dots.. Maybe i'm wrong. Nonetheless, I agree with you. I wonder if gluing it on would look good... I will be experimenting in the morning before I send anything out.
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List of Printers Which Do (or Do Not) Display Tracking Dots
https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/list.html
Other EFF info on printers
https://www.eff.org/search?text=printer
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Tape over the main address and no return address is super lamo, get with it vendors. This is not rocket science. Mail needs to look like all the other mail.
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Laser printers shouldn't be used unless you paid for it with cash. They leave their serial number on everything they print. And taping the address to the envelope looks really unprofessional, worse than handwritten imo.
I'd rephrase that...
Color Laser printers leave identification dots, it's very hard for a blank and white laser printer to leave a yellow dot pattern.
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So no mail hand written, like a letter envelope hand written will most likely never make it? How do people send letters to others, im sure alot of people send letter envelopes in these such ways. I know its not a good idea in the nature of our sending, but how do all letters reach normal people sending them out. And can you not send special paper in between letters if you can catch my drift?
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So no mail hand written, like a letter envelope hand written will most likely never make it? How do people send letters to others, im sure alot of people send letter envelopes in these such ways. I know its not a good idea in the nature of our sending, but how do all letters reach normal people sending them out. And can you not send special paper in between letters if you can catch my drift?
It's more about postal inspectors profiling certain mail for additional inspection. Handwritten addresses on envelopes score higher than printed addresses.