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Cardboard stamp
I've concluded that the USPS doesn't want 'ordinary' citizens to use the
mail. The new US Domestic Mail Manual is rather labyrinthine, and the information on the USPS site for "calculate postage" is less than helpful. "Large" is not defined, for instance. "Thick" is not defined. "Non-machinable" is not defined. But as a stamp and cover collector, and someone insistent about the continuation of an easy-to-use "Universal People's Post", I want to do something to help. I'm planning on creating a free website so that people can follow a "Wizard"-type system to go through the steps and land at the right postage ("What are the dimensions"? "How thick is it"? "Is it bumpy"?) I could even sell plastic templates with slots and measurements, at my purchase cost, to help. I've found many people just say "forget it" and just stick on two or three first-class stamps and hope it's enough, frequently wasting as much as 65 cents in the process. If I make this user-friendly enough, it could save people some significant money, and save them a trip to the post office. I would also have a form where the user could format an address to USPS specs (something easier to use than the USPS "Find a ZIP code" feature), and maybe even print a bar code, to shave a day or two off delivery time. The end result would be something like a formatted address and words like "NON-MACHINABLE 2 OZ. FIRST-CLASS DOMESTIC LETTER", that they could write or print on the envelope, or produce a print-out. The print-out would have page number references for the DMM so that, if the mailer decides to take it to a postal counter, the mailer could insist to the clerk who is possibly not fully familiar with the regs that the postage is correct and save money. Anybody have ideas or interested in being a beta-tester, contact me off-list. Best, Joshua McGee APS, ATA, ISWSC, MPBC, BPS, MCC http://www.mcgees.org http://www.mcgees.org/postalcancel/p...celintro.shtml |
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