Talk:Envelope

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All too often enclosures are improperly sized, resulting in slippage from view of the address in the window envelope. I can't even find a term that describes the problem, let alone find any suggestions as to how one might correctly mitigate the situation. One can find warnings galore against the practice of stapling the enclosure to prevent slippage, but no direct suggestion, other than using a properly sized enclosure, as to how to deal effectively with the problem. Today the situation created by the enclosure-improperly-sized-for-window is more than a mere aggravation. Many of us fear the day our attempt to prevent address slippage gets us in trouble with Homeland Security and identified as saboteurs. The method I have used to keep incorrectly sized enclosures in address window alignment is the post-it method. One affixes post-its to the enclosure (on the unaddressed side) as extensions to the enclosure so that, when placed in the envelope, the addressed enclosure fits snugly enough to remain positioned for correct display of the address. The worry arises that, somehow in the automated opening of the post-it mitigated envelope, machinery will be confounded by the small sticky paper, constituting some slowdown that would qualify under the Patriot Act as terrorism. The IRS 1040-ES (OCR) forms are much shorter than they should be to remain positioned in the envelope for address readablility. What term is there to describe this potentially crippling hazzard, and what is the proper method of mitigation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolfsehr (talk • contribs) 13:35, February 3, 2007

Any particular reason why the historical perspectives in 'Overview' are not broadly in date order? 86.151.1.36 19:59, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

"Most of the over 400 billion envelopes of all sizes made worldwide are machine-made. The envelope-machine making industry is dominated internationally by WINKLER+DÜNNEBIER."

Oh, really? Questionable and unsourced statistic, and an even more questionable unsourced statement bordering on advertising. Unless someone can back either or both of these statements up, they should go. TCHJ3K 21:30, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] tinLETTER

I removed the following from the article: Since 2007 it is also possible to use a tin envelope, called tinLETTER, made out of metal for special mailings and repeated use. It was added on 3-Jan-08 by an IP as that IP's only edit [1]. There is no Wikpedia article on tinLETTER, googling gives a commercial website in German (http://www.tinletter.com/) which doesn't look like a very big company. More importantly saying "it is possible" doesn't address in which countries it is possible to, or if the tinLETTER is treated like a paper envelope in those jurisdictions. At any case, it's probably not a general enough feature to warrant commercial product placement in the lede. -- 128.104.112.19 (talk) 20:34, 5 February 2008 (UTC)