{"id":316,"date":"2012-05-30T09:31:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gofranklingo.wordpress.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2018-07-13T02:04:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T08:04:27","slug":"mail-piece-design-for-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/30\/mail-piece-design-for-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail Piece Design for Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of our associates recently attended a USPS presentation on how to design mail for the lowest cost and fastest delivery.\u00a0 Given recent rate increases and upcoming facility closings, making sure your mail meets the best standards is increasingly important. The presentation covers many important topics such as:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>mail piece minimum and maximum size<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>shape (aspect ratio)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>minimum and maximum thickness<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>minimum and maximum weight<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>rigidity<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>tabbing<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>return address placement<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>address and postal barcode placement<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>accepted address fonts<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>paper color<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>and more<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This is a good reference to bookmark to double-check yourself each time you create a different mail piece, or to review your current designs to make sure you are getting the most out of them.\u00a0 View the entire presentation here:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofranklingo.com\/pdf\/mpdpresentation.pdf\">http:\/\/www.gofranklingo.com\/pdf\/mpdpresentation.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of our associates recently attended a USPS presentation on how to design mail for the lowest cost and fastest delivery.\u00a0 Given recent rate increases and upcoming facility closings, making sure your mail meets the best standards is increasingly important. The presentation covers many important [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,33,35,95,96,97,132],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-posts","tag-design-for-automation","tag-direct-mail","tag-direct-mail-design","tag-postage-rates","tag-postage-savings","tag-postal-automation","tag-usps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gofranklingo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}