Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!ctrsol!gabe From: gabe@ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: MacEnvelope and postage meters Message-ID: <1989Oct1.031052.19913@ctr.columbia.edu> Date: 1 Oct 89 03:10:52 GMT Reply-To: gabe@ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener) Distribution: usa Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 19 This question isn't directly mac related...it's more of a postal question, but I'm sure someone here who uses MacEnvelope will know. I use MacEnvelope to prepare envelopes complete with Zip+4 barcodes and FIM stripes at the top of the page. Now the program always assumes that you're going to put a stamp on the envelope. But what if you're going to meter it instead? The postage imprint from my Pitney Bowes machine is long enough that it will print right over the FIM stripes at the top of the envelope. Does this make a difference? Will the optical scanner still detect the FIM even though the postmark is on top of it? There has to be a postal reg. that addresses this issue. Anyone know for sure? -- Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings gabe@ctr.columbia.edu to be seriously considered as a means of gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu communication. The device is inherently of 72355.1226@compuserve.com no value to us." -Western Union memo, 1877