October 2009 Announcement from Pullman Publishing

The United States Postal Service has adopted new mailing standards for booklet shaped mail pieces. Please contact your Publications Coordinator at University Publishing for assistance in the proper design and construction to meet mailing standards. Contact: Arline Lyons

Designing mail for the Vancouver Pitney Bowes postage meter

When you write an address on an envelope or postcard, please be sure to allow enough space for the OVERSIZED stamp which is applied to the envelope or postcard by the inkjet printer in the Pitney Bowes Postage Meter - since writing an address "too high" will result in the stamp covering the top of the address

Postage Meter Stamp printed on an Envelope

Also, please be sure to keep the right side of any mail item you order or design free of any printing, so the inkjet printer in the Pitney Bowes Postage Meter will have a place to put a stamp... the example below shows a mail item with a picture on the right, which then needs to be manually modified before the item may be run through the postage meter (it would have been much better if this picture was put on the left side)

• This mail item also has a postage paid mark, which must be covered by a plain white label for the item to be run through the Pitney Bowes Postage Meter (the US Postal sorting machines become "confused" if the item has both a postage paid mark and a semi-transparent stamp, and the item will be returned)
• The white label (Avery 5260 - 1 inch x 2+5/8 inch) must cover the postage paid stamp and then extend to the right for the inkjet stamp (the postage meter has a LIMITED adjustment to the left, which is just barely enough to work with this mail item after a full label is added)