<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16705" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Terry: I ran across your email in my piano files, and was reminded that I have been meaning to try the USPS mailing service. I would like a copy of your handout very much.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Patrick C. Poulson<BR>Registered Piano Technician<BR>Piano Technicians Guild</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=innuuuu@yahoo.com href="mailto:innuuuu@yahoo.com">Terence Miller</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech list</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 01, 2007 4:41 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Reminder postcards sent via the USPS web site</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Dear List:<BR><BR>Yes, you can indeed do all of your client mailings (reminder cards, holiday newsletter) and chapter mailings (newsletter, meeting notification postcard) online through the postal service.<BR><BR>Create your document offline and upload it to their website. Upload your mailing list, pay them, and wait for the phone calls. No more labels, stamping, trips to Kinkos or the post office. A one-sided non-fancy black and white postcard is indeed only a little more than the 26 cent postcard postage.<BR><BR>You can be as simple or complicated as you like. Full color? Sure. Text on both sides of the card? You bet. Bigger postcard? Yup. 8 page newsletter? Yes. Letter stuffed in an envelope? No problem.<BR><BR>You can even do mail merge........but using their funky software, not through MS Word.<BR><BR>The easiest way is to create a bunch of stock postcards:<BR>- It's been A LONG Time since I last tuned your piano<BR>- It's been a year since <BR>- It's been 6 months since<BR>- It's time to tune your piano<BR>- Tune your piano this month and save ___$<BR>- In the past we have tuned your piano in the spring/winter/fall, why don't we get back into that program<BR>- Thank you for choosing me to service your piano<BR>- Thank you for referring me to your friend.<BR><BR>you get the idea<BR><BR>Send your complete client list to Excel and filter the records to match your postcard characteristics, copy that to a new file (i.e.  Time2tuneMAY.xls) and then upload that mailing list to the PO. Then match that list to the corresponding postcard that is saved up there, preview it, pay them, and start answering the phone in 3 days.<BR><BR><BR>I've given this Technical in the Bay Area at a couple of the chapters. Email me privately if you would like a copy of the handouts I prepared for the class.<BR><BR>Hey, if you don't believe me, ask Mark Stivers.<BR><BR>regards<BR><BR>Terry Miller<BR> <P> <HR SIZE=1> Need Mail bonding?<BR>Go to the <A href="http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_ylc=X3oDMTFvbGNhMGE3BF9TAzM5NjU0NTEwOARfcwMzOTY1NDUxMDMEc2VjA21haWxfdGFnbGluZQRzbGsDbWFpbF90YWcx?link=ask&sid=396546091">Yahoo! Mail Q&A</A> for <A href="http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_ylc=X3oDMTFvbGNhMGE3BF9TAzM5NjU0NTEwOARfcwMzOTY1NDUxMDMEc2VjA21haWxfdGFnbGluZQRzbGsDbWFpbF90YWcx?link=ask&sid=396546091">great tips from Yahoo! Answers</A> users.</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>