Renewal notices, USPS regulations, etc. (2 messages) Birdie MacLennan 05 Dec 1996 18:17 UTC
2 messages, 109 lines: (1)----------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:02:59 EST From: Albert Henderson <70244.1532@COMPUSERVE.COM> Subject: Renewal notices, USPS regulations, etc. (3 messages) It seems to me that colleges and universities could make a dent in their administrative costs by taking advantage of USPS automation and having the very considerable load of library mail delivered directly to the library. The USPS database indicates a separate zip+4 for nearly every condominium apartment in America but very few college libraries. For whatever interest there may be, the USPS CASS database shows street addresses for (A) Eastern Kentucky University at 521 Lancaster Ave, Richmond KY 40475-3101 521 Lancaster Ave, Richmond KY 40475-3175 There is no zip+4 at 40475-3121 on the database. (B) Gettysburg College at: 300 N Washington St, Gettysburg PA 17325-1499 0 Gettysburg College, Gettysburg PA 17325-1411 [if you don't include the '0' the software reports a 'range error'!?] Albert Henderson, Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY 70244.1532@compuserve.com ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- [snip] + Genevieve Clay 606-622-1788 (wk) /\~~~~/\ + + Acquisitions 606-622-1174 (fax) > < + + Crabbe Library > ^ ^ < + + Eastern Kentucky University > (_o_) < + + Richmond, Ky. 40475-3121 libclay@acs.eku.edu U + [snip] Lee A. Krieger Ph.:717-337-7007 Delivery Team/Acquisitions Librarian Fax:717-337-6251 Musselman Library email:lkrieger@gettysburg.edu Gettysburg College Gettysburg, PA 17325 (2)--------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:24:47 -0500 From: JoAnne Deeken <djoanne@CLEMSON.EDU> Subject: Re: Renewal notices 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? We got a couple of calls and notices on this also. Wilma Burkett on my staff called the post office. Under new postal regulations, if the sender wants to send something at other than first class rates, they are to use a street address, not a P.O. Box. Since, like Steve, all the campus mail comes to a central mail receiving area, we are giving out the main address for the university (more like the intersection of a couple of streets near the admin building) ONLY when we are told that deliveries will cease if we can't provide a street address. The street address we give out was one the campus post office decided upon after great gnashing of teeth. We definitely do NOT plan to do a massive address change. Good luck! JoAnne ******************************************************************* JoAnne Deeken Head, Acquisitions Unit Clemson University R.M. Cooper Library Box 343001 Clemson, SC 29634-3001 V(864)656-1114 F(864)656-7156 djoanne@clemson.edu *******************************************************************