How To Address A Letter

[Ruptga]

Or: What Life Was Like In The Previous Millennium

The other day I stuffed and addressed around 100 letters for the university, responses to requests for information and such. Today I found that the campus mail harpies (or whatever they're actually called) won't accept the letters because I put the address labels on the bottom right quarter of the envelopes. They have to be placed in the center of the envelopes, obviously. I can't even throw them into a mail drop box myself because they're not stamped, which is apparently another duty of the mail harpies.

All this from a university with "science and technology" in its name. Not only can we not email these people their information within five minutes of receiving the request, our mail system is so special that it can't handle a regular letter. Also, this stuff won't even be sent out until Monday because the person that can print more envelopes and labels has more important stuff to do and we're all leaving in an hour.

 

[Mixolydian]

I put the address labels on the bottom right quarter of the envelopes.

why would you do that.

 

[Ruptga]

why would you do that.

Because that's how letters are addressed? I remember way back in grade school that's how they had us do it.

Like this example I found after a whole ten seconds

 

[slag]

Because that's how letters are addressed? I remember way back in grade school that's how they had us do it.

Like this example I found after a whole ten seconds

Derp, no.. the address you are mailing to always has gone in the middle of the envelope. I learned this back in the early 80s and it hasn't changed..

http://www.nhcs.net/parsley/curriculum/Graphics/PostalProgram/Envelope.gif

They started in the middle of the envelope, not the bottom right like we learned in grade school.

 

[IronWing]

There seems to be a disagreement among evelope makers.

They're still harpies though. There is a simple identification scheme for harpies:

1) Does the person work on campus? Yes - goto 2
2) Is the person over 30 yo? Yes - goto 3
3) Does the person present as the female gender? Yes - goto 4
4) Harpie

 

[slag]

I wasn't aware these were windowed envelopes. This changes EVERYTHING.

No, not really. If you are affixing a label to an envelope or writing out the person's address, put it in the middle where it belongs.

 

[IronWing]

I wasn't aware these were windowed envelopes. This changes EVERYTHING.

No, not really. If you are affixing a label to an envelope or writing out the person's address, put it in the middle where it belongs.

I agree that it should be in the middle. However I am open to the idea that 1) other people were taught differently and 2) he was dealing with harpies.

 

[Crono]

I wasn't aware these were windowed envelopes. This changes EVERYTHING.

No, not really. If you are affixing a label to an envelope or writing out the person's address, put it in the middle where it belongs.

Yeah, the addressee always goes in the center.

 

[waffleironhead]

Because that's how letters are addressed? I remember way back in grade school that's how they had us do it.

Like this example I found after a whole ten seconds

That's not the bottom right corner.:\

 

[BurnItDwn]

I hate snail mail. I am sorry for your suffering.

 

[Mixolydian]

I hate snail mail. I am sorry for your suffering.

Fax FTW!

 

[Atomic Playboy]

If only the US Post Office offered some sort of diagram to help people with this difficult issue....

Oh. Well there you go. The "bottom right corner" is clearly not where the address goes.

 

[lxskllr]

It goes in the middle, but there's room for interpretation. If a reasonable person with an intelligence above retarded knows what's going on, it's sufficient for postage.

 

[brianmanahan]

lol, duh

recipient address goes directly in the middle, everyone knows this

 

[BurnItDwn]

Fax FTW!

kill me now

 

[Ns1]

If only the US Post Office offered some sort of diagram to help people with this difficult issue....

Oh. Well there you go. The "bottom right corner" is clearly not where the address goes.

:awe::thumbsup:

 

[Mixolydian]

kill me now

 

[MrPickins]

Thread backfire

 

[zinfamous]

Yo Dawgs, how about this:

what about them peoples that draws the return address on the flap of the sealed envelope--you know, the back side?

:hmm:

 

[Ruptga]

Thread backfire

All blog posts always backfire, it's an unwritten rule of ATOT.

That's not the bottom right corner.:\

But it is the bottom right quarter since it's a bit below and to the right of the middle, which is what I did

I agree that it should be in the middle. However I am open to the idea that 1) other people were taught differently and 2) he was dealing with harpies.

They might have actually been lesser furies, tasked with taking vengeance upon improper mail etiquette, but I'm not sure of those specifics.

It goes in the middle, but there's room for interpretation. If a reasonable person with an intelligence above retarded knows what's going on, it's sufficient for postage.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Kadarin]

There seems to be a disagreement among evelope makers.

They're still harpies though. There is a simple identification scheme for harpies:

1) Does the person work on campus? Yes - goto 2
2) Is the person over 30 yo? Yes - goto 3
3) Does the person present as the female gender? Yes - goto 4
4) Harpie

There's currently no cure for harpies, but the condition can be treated.