[nabentre] Making Address Labels

[Judy Jones]

With USPS, folding the sheet in half from bottom to top will get you on the dotted line.  You keep the half that is printed horizontally from left to right side of the full page, and place the mailing label (other half) on the package.  Mailing label print is going vertically on the full page, so if you can feel your laser printer impression, you will be able to feel half page of vertical print and half page horizontal print.

On other labels, I check with the Optacon where the dotted line is, mark it with a dot with the stylus, then know where to cut.  Each company is different.

To take the guesswork out of the way, I would simply type on blank labels or paper and tape it on.  I use the typewriter the way a sighted person would use a pen for things.  Typing on sticky notes, adding inserted messages to a hard-copy paper, envelopes also.  One can do envelopes with the computer as well, but by the time I set it up, set up our Cannon copier, then print, I might as well have run it through the typewriter, quicker.

Judy


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II learned how to use the Optacon many many years ago and never got one. 
Hindsight teaches that I wish I had. That is great to know a food scale is good enough. I have one! Now, you said you put the shipping label part of the page on the package with tape. How do you know where to cut the paper? 
Is it simple enough that once you measure the first time you can do it with little issue of getting other stuff too? For example, is it a big area that allows for a little variance? This is all so very helpful.

NCBootMan

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Yes, the scanner would take more time.  If you are an Optacon user, you can spot check much quicker with that device.  I also use it when first creating a labels sheet to make sure the print is aligned correctly.  Then when all is well, I save the sheet.  On my computer I have a "Forms" folder that contains electronic version of all the forms we use in our office, several labels sheets being among them.

USPS, UPS, and any shipping service will ask you for the weight.  I use a talking food scale that works fine.  I also weigh all of our larger envelopes to make sure I have the right amount of postage.

When you create a label on a shipping site, they will ask the weight, then calculate the postage.  I actually use USPS the most, and print their label on a sheet of paper, then put the mail label half on the package with tape.

Judy

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Judy,

For known repeats, I had thought of a label sheet labeled in braille. You mentioned creating them through USPS or Stamps.com. I am not at all familiar with either service. Is one more accessible than the other? How does it work? Can I just produce a label or is it the postage as well so I'd just stick the whole thing on the package? If postage too, what sort of scale is accurate enough and accessible to do that? I sure can't afford to rent a postage machine or something at this point, but some small scale might be doable! If you prefer, you can write me directly at ncbootman at gmail.com or here is fine if you feel the information might help others. This is all new to me, but I believe will open up a whole lot of possibilities!

I hadn't thought about the typewriter as a viable possibility but with a scanner, it is indeed possible to verify the accuracy of the label. It takes more time, but it works. We sometimes forget the low tech ideas I'm afraid.

NCBootMan

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Are you talking about creating them through USPS or Stamps.com?  If you need towrite an address label that is constantly changing, the easiest way around this is type them out on a typewriter.

If you ship to a vendor or a customer multiple times, you can create a labels sheet with their name and address, braille the name on the very bottom of the label sheet and file in a folder.  I have a spot for about 4 or 5 labels sheet and pull a label off when their address is needed.

Otherwise, typing one out would seem the easiest.

Judy

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Subject: [nabentre] Making Address Labels

Does anyone have a good way to make address labels for shipping packages?
The list is constantly changing and number per shipment is never the same as well.

NCBootMan
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