Virtual Enrollment Party

Well, once again we have new postal regulations in terms of bulk mailings. You're not going to be able to use the standard Blue Ribbon mailing labels if you want to use bulk mail rates.

THANKS to Mary Kay Litzel, Steph Erpelding, and Anjanette Treadway, there's now a new document on the Blue Ribbon Helpsheets webpage that will help you get information OUT of Blue Ribbon, INTO Excel, and then ONTO labels, either using Microsoft Word 2003 or 2007, or Filemaker Pro. The directions for Word are noticeably more complete than Filemaker, but my latest "beginner" Filemaker manual has complete instructions for creating a labels layout within that program if you need more info.

The short version of the story is that when using bulk mail, you now either have to include "Return Service Requested" under your RETURN address (and pay for those returns) or include "Or Current Resident" in the address. It's that second option that won't work with the Blue Ribbon mailing labels setup.

Again, thanks to Mary Kay, Steph, and Anjanette for their help with this project. The resulting document is a whopper for a HelpSheet--6 pages--and much of its content (and helpfulness) comes from those 3 people. I'm definitely not a mail OR mail-merge guru, and I really appreciate them sharing their time and knowledge!!