I have a bunch of postcards I'm mailing out from within the US to people in the US, UK and Switzerland. I can put domestic stamps on the cards sent from within the US to our US address, so that the recipients can just drop it in a mailbox. Does the USPS or another entity within the US sell stamps that I can put on the postcards sent from the UK and Switzerland, such that the recipients don't need to buy their own stamps?
posted by Blazecock Pileon
on May 10, 2013 -
10 answers
A strange piece of mail showed up at my house today. Someone wrote to himself, using
my house as his return address. He got his own address wrong, and the mail was 'returned' to my house. I do not know this person. Any ideas as to what is going on?
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posted by Capt. Renault
on May 6, 2013 -
34 answers
I recently ordered something something from the US via eBay to be shipped to Canada, but did not include my phone number with my mailing address. What will happen to the package when it reaches customs if my number is not on it?
posted by Gin and Comics
on Apr 25, 2013 -
5 answers
My local post office doesn't deliver mail, or on the rare occasion that it does, it comes horribly late. What can I do to rectify the situation?
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posted by Navelgazer
on Apr 23, 2013 -
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Hi everyone. I recently visited an online map where people who share a very unusual niche hobby place a pin where they live, voluntarily including an address or name if they'd like, and I found to my pleasant shock that a fellow enthusiast lives only a few blocks from me. He/she left a contact address but not a name, and I'd really love to write to this person, but I have no idea what the normal etiquette is for addressing a personal envelope to an unnamed recipient (to be clear, I don't mean the letter itself, but the envelope).
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posted by Buddy-Rey
on Apr 14, 2013 -
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I have a very good friend who is overseas right now. He is craving Taco Bell. He has zero access to a Taco Bell as he is in a very remote location. He can receive mail and packages, but they take anywhere from 5 days to 14 days to arrive. It would leave the East Coast and arrive in an undisclosed location in the Middle East.
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posted by irishcoffee
on Mar 28, 2013 -
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I have an IPhone 4s. I routinely need to dictate myself messages that I can send vie email from my phone to myself using Siri.
Is there any way to set things up so I can do that with very few clicks?
Right now I push home to open Siri, ask to send mail, enter my mail address, Dictate the message and hit send. Can it be done more easily?
Thanks
posted by dougiedd
on Mar 26, 2013 -
8 answers
I want to send a postcard from France to
this restaurant in Japan where my friend is a cook. There appears to be an address on the front page of the website, but I'll be damned if I can make out what it says, much less recreate it on a postcard in a way that the French post can parse. I'm sure I could ask him myself, but I would prefer to surprise him. Can anyone help me with this?
posted by Evstar
on Mar 11, 2013 -
9 answers
I want to make brownies for my son's birthday and mail them to him. This is not a problem. What might be a problem, however...
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posted by DMelanogaster
on Feb 15, 2013 -
11 answers
I use Apple's Mail app with three mail accounts and I would like somehow to differentiate emails other than the tiny little label they show.
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posted by xmutex
on Feb 10, 2013 -
5 answers
Return address quandary: I've left my old apartment but I haven't moved into a new one yet. I'm forwarding my mail to a POB in the meanwhile. When continuing official correspondence, what should I put down as my return address?
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posted by mirileh
on Jan 21, 2013 -
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Is there a good SMTP service to send bulk emails (or another good solution for sending bulk emails, using the tools I already have, rather than a service like Mailchimp?)
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posted by ManInSuit
on Jan 16, 2013 -
14 answers
What are the maximum dimensions (in each direction) of a box that will fit in a standard USPS blue drop box of the sort that you find on a city street corner?
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posted by enn
on Dec 27, 2012 -
12 answers
I want to change the world. Or at least make it easier/faster/cheaper to send my niece and nephew, currently living
less than 500 miles from where I live, a flipping Christmas package. Who should I bother to help get this done?
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posted by SMPA
on Dec 19, 2012 -
21 answers
What happens to your mail when the PO closes your box for nonpayment? Forgot to pay my PO Box bill. The box has been closed. This is just in the past week or so. But what will happen to my mail? Are they holding it? Sending it all back to the original senders? Yes, I will call the PO tomorrow, but I will sleep better tonight if I know what's happening to my clients' checks, even if I can't fix the problem right now.
posted by liketitanic
on Dec 11, 2012 -
11 answers
Help me add new dishes to the menu. Difficult level: kosher-style, pescaphobic, non-dairy, mushroom hater.
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posted by bq
on Nov 27, 2012 -
17 answers
I have an iPhone and iPad, both on iOS 6. Email works fine, but if I try and send a file from within any app, it looks like it works - but it doesn't. This is the case for the two different mail accounts I have set up (one Gmail, one Exchange) and it's driving me round the twist.
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posted by reynir
on Oct 25, 2012 -
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This morning I collected mail from my PO Box, and was told there was another item with postage due. I paid the $1.50 and then was given three copies of form 3547, 'address forwarding service' for mail I never sent. How can I get this refunded and stop whoever sent it 'in my name'?
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posted by jacalata
on Oct 23, 2012 -
8 answers
What is a quick and cheap domain registration and mail forwarding option from mybusinessname.com.au?
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posted by jacanj
on Oct 9, 2012 -
2 answers
Mac mail sends with one gmail account but the recipient sees it sent from another gmail account. Help?
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posted by sarae
on Aug 21, 2012 -
4 answers
In the US, can you still forward USPS mail for free by writing the forwarding address on the front?
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posted by zsazsa
on Aug 6, 2012 -
7 answers
Looking at the Universal Postal Union
pages on the matter, addresses on envelopes are usually right-justified and appear below the stamp. Why is this the case. Also, are the UK and Ireland the only exceptions?
posted by Talkie Toaster
on Aug 1, 2012 -
7 answers
How can I ship two live turtles from NY to TX? I have found some info, but instructions are confusing and I need a walk-through from someone who is familiar with shipping live animals.
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posted by greta simone
on Jul 26, 2012 -
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I need to mail approximately $1,000 worth of euros from WA to NY. We received it from our bank through FedEx, but FedEx refused to accept the shipment when I tried to send it and said that the bank must have had third party insurance. What is the best way to get the money to the opposite coast within the next couple of weeks?
posted by halogen
on Jun 28, 2012 -
14 answers
Using Windows 7, use Windows Live Mail for my email program.
I use an all-in-one printer to scan documents and send as attachments in emails. Now Live Mail automatically uses Skydrive for all attachments, I would like to just have normal jpg attachments without Skydrive. I read on Windows website how to set it not to use Skydrive in Hotmail but I need to know how to set it to not use it in Live Mail. Can anyone help me??
posted by sandyp
on Jun 19, 2012 -
2 answers
It's possible to drag a message to a label in GMail by grabbing it from the leftmost edge. However, on a hi-res monitor, this can be quite difficult. Is there a hack or greasemonkey script that allows you to drag the message by clicking and dragging anywhere in the Subject rather than just the left edge?
posted by I EAT TAPAS
on Jun 10, 2012 -
5 answers
My online mailbox is full. I want to move some of those messages to a folder on my computer, using Apple Mail in system 10.6.8. There's doesn't seem to be an obvious way to create a new folder in Apple Mail, under the section On My Mac. Can you tell me how to do this? The account is IMAP and private mail service.
posted by Brandon Blatcher
on May 28, 2012 -
2 answers
Anyone out there have any experience setting up Centurylink (q.com) email to work with the iPad native Mail app?
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posted by hippybear
on May 13, 2012 -
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Android PrivacyFilter: I will soon be issued a shiny new Android smartphone at work, and my employer's policies allow limited personal use of the device. What's the current state of best practices for keeping a reasonable degree of separation between personal and work stuff?
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posted by QuantumMeruit
on Apr 13, 2012 -
3 answers
What's the best recourse when USPS loses a package (espicially when things may not actually be their fault)?
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posted by RolandOfEld
on Mar 26, 2012 -
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