CIRCLES

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Comment by Carmela Rizzuto on November 8, 2014 at 3:42pm

For Liu Miao's 'Postcard Everyday Project', Shanghai, China. By C Rizzuto on E Kamkar's Paste paper with collage and gel pen embellishments.

 

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on November 8, 2014 at 4:20am

Nice circle pieces everyone. Love this!

Here's the rule from Dean, Artist in Seine. Put appropriate postage on your piece, do not put your return address on the piece, pop your mail into a post box, and voila! The postal system has to carry on and deliver the mail. It always works for him and I use his rule when mailing oddly shaped pieces.

Comment by Linda Pelati on November 7, 2014 at 8:34am

Hi!

Comment by Keith S. Chambers on November 7, 2014 at 1:19am

btw, cool piece Jan, I too am a sucker for stitched mail pieces.

Comment by Keith S. Chambers on November 7, 2014 at 1:19am

Hey Jan, there are no restrictions about oddly shaped letters and postcards, just additional postage for those odd shapes. "Regular letter size" falls within a certain [rectangular] ratio. Squares, circles, octagons and biomorphic shapes incur a surcharge because they do not fall within the specs of running through the sorting machines. It all boils down to what is machinable and what is nonmachinable. The robots have their limitations.

Yes, I think every postoffice has that one timid clerk that says, "Oh my . . . I'm not sure if we can do that." You're right in just throwing it in the mailbox and not dealing with nay-saying clerks. The usps [dot] com website postal calculator asks about these odd shaped pieces and will include aforementioned surcharge.

I spent a few decades of my life designing direct mail advertising and went through offered usps seminars to get me up to speed. You know what they say, you need to know the rules before you can break the rules.

If anyone gives a rat's patootie, http://about.usps.com/publications/pub25.pdf . . . there's even a [plastic] template tool that you can use to measure your mailing piece against, both in ratio and thickness. I've got one or two stowed away somewhere in a box.

My advice to everyone is forget the rules and continue to challenge those folks down at the sorting center. Onward.

Comment by Jan Hodgman on November 7, 2014 at 12:30am

I'm somewhat amazed it made it, Angie, as we have one postal employee at our local PO who is quite persnickety about regulations, and I couldn't find anything about mailing a round object. I just put it in a mailbox so I didn't have to face her across the counter!

Comment by Jennifer Jones (JJalltheway) on November 7, 2014 at 12:24am

I'm a sucker for stitches  on mail! Nice work Jan.

Comment by Amy Irwen on November 5, 2014 at 12:31am

Angie, that is cooool!

Comment by Jan Hodgman on November 4, 2014 at 12:25am

Judy Staroscik sent a pack of goodies including a Cirlcles ATC. Very fun:

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 2, 2014 at 1:14pm

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