» Wednesday, 21 January A.D. 2009
return addresses
I was writing bills tonight and had to write my address several times in the return address area. Theoretically, this shouldn't be needed: those nicely typed addresses showing through the clear plastic should always be there, are always right, and will always get the bill to the correct destination. But I am slightly paranoid about what happens if the return stub gets jostled a bit and the address no longer shows through (especially for some bills that are significantly smaller than the envelope, like the water bill)...so I write my address on every single envelope.
Now, I've already seen a solution to this, one that doesn't require the wastage of address labels: our previous health insurance company used to print their own address as the return address on the envelopes. So the bill was virtually guaranteed to get to the right place. (IIRC, it wasn't the corporate address, either; it was the actual P.O. box or whatever billing address they were using at the time.) Why can't more companies do this?
posted by Nate @ 10:48PM