jmlang@water.UUCP (12/03/86)
With the Christmas rush coming, Canada Post has provided an incentive to use an efficient way to sort automatically Christmas cards by lowering the postage for those that are mailed with special enveloppes. I think this is a good idea. The scheme used is to fill little boxes corresponding to the postal code of the recipient. I also noticed that on some business letters (or junk mail or bills or ...), there is an encoding that is very similar. Also, some letters get some fluorescent postal code encoding. Have you noticed the 4 vertical bars next to the area for the stamps on reply enveloppes for bills? Apparently, these indicate that the letter may contain money and thus get priority in the sorting process (and runs havoc for people who count on their check to take x days to reach the creditor). Do business have to pay to Canada Post for this priviledge of getting their mail faster than we do? Looks to me like another class of mail... I am also curious of any possible codes that the sorting machines are able to distinguish. -- Je'ro^me M. Lang || jmlang@water.bitnet jmlang@water.uucp Dept of Applied Math || jmlang%water@waterloo.csnet U of Waterloo || jmlang%water%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa