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2. Padded envelope - Wikipedia

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   Mailing envelopes and small packages may receive as many as 27 handlings during shipment with the maximum drop height of 1.2 metres (3.9 ft). [1] The contents of the mailing envelopes often need protection from shock and vibration damage. Cushioning or padding can be built into the mailing envelope to help protect the contents.

3. Surface mail - Wikipedia

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   Surface mail is transported via truck, rail, and ship, rather than by plane, as in this FedEx Ground truck. Surface mail, also known as sea mail, is mail that is transported by land and sea (along the surface of the Earth), rather than by air, as in airmail. Surface mail is significantly less expensive but slower than airmail, and thus is ...

4. United Parcel Service - Wikipedia

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   United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [6] and one of the world's largest shipping couriers.

5. Commercial mail receiving agency - Wikipedia

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   In 1970, there were estimated to be as many as 1,500 CMRAs, costing on average $7 per month for a small mailbox. [3] The private mailbox business grew as a result of shortage of P.O. Boxes. [4] As of 2000, the USPS regulated 466 private mailboxes in New York City alone. [4]

6. Intelligent Mail barcode - Wikipedia

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   Higher-volume mailers are eligible to receive 6-digit mailer IDs, which have a larger range of associated sequence numbers; lower-volume mailers receive 9-digit mailer IDs. To make it possible to distinguish 6-digit IDs from 9-digit IDs, all 6-digit IDs begin with a digit between 0 and 8 inclusive, while all 9-digit IDs begin with the digit 9.

7. Mail sorting - Wikipedia

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   In 2007, the USPS introduced shape-based pricing which offered more significant postal discounts for mailers who sorted flat-sized mailpieces. In response to this postal change, the market responded with new low-cost systems designed specifically to support flat mail sorting for mailers who process between 500 and 10,000 first class flats per day.