#Mail call the book code
And don't go putting in useless names of streets when the computer code is enough: "Example: HC 2 BOX 18 BRYAN DAIRY RD becomes HC 2 BOX 18," its milk skimmed of all character. We are permitted to spell out a few words of special interest to those in the Postal Service they like to see GENERAL DELIVERY in all its glory, or perhaps some official felt that GD looked like a shortening of the profane reaction of customers to the new postalingo. This was no sudden surge of arrogance by a Napoleonic brochure-writer: we were also told in the 1989 version, "City names will be spelled out in their entirety" unless they run over 13 letters in that case, "NEWBERRY SPRINGS becomes NEWBERRY SPGS." (The 1990 version, however, uses straightforward imperative: "Spell city names in their entirety.")
#Mail call the book full
The tone of command is unmistakable: "You Will Report for Induction at 0800 Hours." In the same ominous tone, we are told by our masterful mailpersons, "There will be a space between the sign and the secondary number," with the clear implication that poundsign miscreants who leave no such space will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, like poor Bill Posters. There will be ? This construction may be considered the implied imperative, as in "Coffee Grounds Will Be Placed in the Container Marked 'Inedible Garbage,' " a sign that has been fixed in my memory since KP days long ago. Aren't we allowed to use this simple signal, so dear to tick-tack-toe fans and sharp musicians, anymore? "If the pound sign is used," snaps the Postal Service, apparently irritated at the unsuite-ables, "there will be a space between the sign and the secondary number." most often, we use the crosshatch symbol for "number," which has come to be known as the pound sign (the origin and etymology of which I seek Lex Irreg help in finding). excuse me, US - that is pronounced "peeky sweet," and in the South, "peeky soot." Wait close examination of the brochure's Appendix C (Suffix Forms) reveals that PKY stands for "Parkway" - not to be confused with MDWS for "Meadows" or PNES for "Pines" - which means we can place a mental period after the abbreviation, place a mental comma after that, and begin a new thought with SUITE.īut you and I rarely use suite or even apartment number, abbreviated to Apt.
What and where, then, you may wonder, is PKY SUITE 101? In most of the U.S. As the model address in the previous paragraph indicates, no commas are to be put between city and state in the Postal Service's brave new mailpiece world, and no periods are to be used after abbreviations. The translation of "to provide mutual cost opportunities" is, I presume, to save money, or a sum of moneypieces, which would then be passed on to the consumer as a slower march upward of postage rates.
Capital, from the Latin caput, "head," gained a sense in Chaucer's time of "large letter placed at the head of a page or line." Even today, when used in the plural to describe a group of large-style letters, the term capital letters comes more naturally than uppercase letters to native speakers, few of whom, it seems, work at the Postal Service if more did, we would read an instruction like PLEASE USE CAPITAL LETTERS, with a reader-friendly explanation, "because it's hard to make out those little squiggles." Instead, we are advised: "Lowercase letters in various type styles are acceptable provided they meet the requirements of optical character reader (OCR) readability," which are said to be available in Chapter 4 of Publication 25, but my copy got lost in the mailpieces room. In outputting addresses to mailpieces, we are told: "Uppercase letters are preferred on all lines of the address block." Uppercase is a large letter, taken from printers' lingo when such type was stored in the upper of a pair of stacked cases small letters, you can readily assume, were stored in the typographer's lower case. That's what the United States Postal Service calls it in its publication "Postal Addressing Standards," which is "must" reading for those unfortunates born under the pound sign who cannot afford faxes and private delivery services.
IF YOU WERE SITTING there addressing mail all day, and you wanted a new sense of bureaucratic self-importance, what would you call what you were doing? You would call it "outputting addresses to mailpieces."
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