Mailing Services, Inc.

758 W Racquet Club Drive

 Addison, IL 60101- 4318
 

630-628-0088 •  FAX 630-628-0481
Toll-Free 888-404-8284

Effective March 2009 You Will Need to Comply with New Design Layouts on Flat Size Mail or you will lose your automation discounts.

This is part of the United States Postal Service's New Flats Sequencing Strategy

I'm going to boil down the ridiculous amount of Postalease trying to explain what they want
so here it is in a nutshell:

Do not place the area for addressing in the bottom part of the mail piece. They want the address information as far to the top of the piece as possible. Most of you have been designing your Flat-Size mail pieces with the address clear area along the bottom. No More! The address area must be in the top half of the mail piece and preferably as close to the top edge of the piece as possible.

Download and watch this Microsoft® PowerPoint Presentation
created by the United States Postal Service®
It's about 32 slides and does explain the issue in simple terms.

You can also visit their website for more detail: http://ribbs.usps.gov/files/fss/Presentations_Communication_Resources/flat_presentations.htm

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