Renewal notices, USPS regulations, etc. (2 messages) Birdie MacLennan 03 Dec 1996 22:58 UTC
2 messages, 82 lines: (1)----------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 14:42:54 -0500 From: Steve Black <blacks@ROSNET.STROSE.EDU> Subject: Re: street address Today's renewals (all addressed to our library, all billed to our vendor) from University of Illinois Press, postmarked Nov. 25, 1996 include bright yellow cards that say: "IMPORTANT! NEW U.S. POSTAL SERVICE ADDRESS REGULATIONS Please review your mailing address as shown on the enclosed renewal notice. If it does not dispay a complete street address or a box number, the U.S. Postal Service cannot create a bar-coded delivery label. By correcting and completing your address. . .you can insure speedier delivery of your journal issues -- and you can help us contain the costs of bulk mailings." The key to receive the bulk rate would appear to be the 4-digit Zip Code extension. ************************************************************************ Steve Black Reference, Serials and Instruction Librarian Neil Hellman Library Albany, NY 12203 "Cogito eggo sum" blacks@rosnet.strose.edu (I think, therefore I waffle) (2)---------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 16:42:30 EST From: Albert Henderson <70244.1532@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: USPS regulations USPS regulations not only call for a "street" address and ZIP+4, the address must be identifiable on the USPS address database! The USPS calls their new system CASS (Coding Accuracy Support System). It asks mailers to use certified software to match each address to their database. The software verifies the street address, ZIP+4 and modifies details such as spelling out Saint Louis (for St Lous) to meet USPS specs. Many colleges and universities contributed to the USPS database, in order to speed delivery of mail and ease the load on the campus mailroom. Others have not done so and there are constant error messages and short bar codes. My best recommendation is to identify barcoded mail that is addressed in an acceptable way and to provide that address to all vendors, publishers, agencies, etc. Albert Henderson, Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 70244.1532@compuserve.com --------------------------- Steve Murden wrote: > Second, I have noticed a consistent notice in all of the renewals > from Mary Ann Liebert. It says: > > New postal regulations require that we have complete street > addreses for our subscribers. > > Please check your address as shown on this renewal form. If > your street address is missing, please fill in the required street > and number information on this form and return to us along with > your renewal form. > > By correcting your address, you will ensure faster and intact > delivery by the postal system. > > Can anyone tell me what those new postal regulations are? At my > university, all mail is delivered to the university post office, > and is dsitributed centrally from there. We are not allowed to > have direct mail delivery at our libraries. In our case, putting > the street address on our mailing labels would only cause > confusion. If I received my personal mail through a PO Box, they > certainly would not require me to list my street address (or the > street address of the PO) on my incoming mail. Is this another > case of someone misinterpreting postal regulations? Or (a worst > case scenario), another case of the USPS setting illogical > regulations?