Mailing Envelopes - On A Different Light

2008-11-05 10:10:38

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At one point in your life, you must have probably written letters for correspondence, and you must have wondered about the different types of envelopes that are in use or just how envelopes came about.

An envelope is a packaging product, usually made of flat, planar material such as paper or cardboard, and designed to contain a flat object, which in a postal-service context is usually a letter, card or bills. The traditional type is made from a sheet of paper cut to one of three shapes: the rhombus (also referred to as a lozenge or diamond), the short-arm cross, and the kite. These designs ensure that in the course of envelope manufacture when the sides of the sheet are folded about a delineated central rectangular area, a rectangular-faced, usually oblong, enclosure is formed with an arrangement of four flaps on the reverse side, which, by virtue of the shapes of sheet traditionally used, is inevitably symmetrical.

According to international postal conventions, mailing envelopes must measure at least 90×140 mm. These requirements help sorting letters by making it easier to line up all the mailing envelopes with the addresses reading the same way. The same regulations also reserve certain regions on the mailing envelopes for the address, the postage, as well as markings that can be added by sorting machines.

As envelopes are made of paper, they are intrinsically amenable to embellishment with additional graphics and text over and above the necessary postal markings such as those made by Conqueror envelopes, a well-known brand name of high-quality mailing envelopes. Some have a rich texture that adds an elegant look to mailings and those that have a matching stationary to project a coordinated image. You can choose the kind of finish you want for your envelopes - with watermarked lines, intermarkings or smooth ultra-polished finish - that can all give your correspondence a professional crisp finish.

In today's technology of electronic mails, writing and mailing a letter might be considered old-fashioned, but there is a different kind of feeling in seeing a written letter in a stationary, which is more personal and creates a lasting impression. And while you are writing that letter, a card, or sending a package, you may look at envelopes in a different light.


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