why not the bottom left?
2006-06-12 00:58:40 · 16 answers · asked by vic6981 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
You can. I've put them on the back before. It's just tradition. They are franked by a machine.
2006-06-12 01:00:55 · answer #1 · answered by andy in greece 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the early postal days, it was designated top right corner so the postal worker would have a uniformed place to look for proper postage, when flipping through the mail. Today the postal machines are designed to scan that same corner during mail processing.
2006-06-12 08:03:54 · answer #2 · answered by Mare 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the franking machine, if they won't fit there for some reason it is requested that you stick them on the bottom left - then they go through the franking machine upside down.
2006-06-12 08:05:30 · answer #3 · answered by franja 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The postal service has to establish this regulation, because if it didn't exist, people would put the postage anywhere, and this would wreck havoc on the efficiency of the automated mail sorting machines, because they are designed to recognize certain formatting on addressed mail.
2006-06-12 08:02:34 · answer #4 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had mail bounce back because the stamp wasnt set properly. some clerks are aholes
usps can be stubborn sometimes
2006-06-12 08:02:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Style, I guess. I've seen people put them on other corners before, and the mail still excepts it.
2006-06-12 08:01:47 · answer #6 · answered by metdevthegamer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beacuse thats just the way to do it is like asking why not starting to write from the last page of your notebook to the first page?
good luck.
2006-06-12 08:03:34 · answer #7 · answered by john 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it should be that way... maybe because it looks better than at the bottom left
2006-06-12 08:03:26 · answer #8 · answered by boyang 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They feed them through a machine. It keeps it organized.
2006-06-12 08:01:48 · answer #9 · answered by Ashleigh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question, the thing is they dont you can put them anywhere its just people put them in the same place time after time strange huh?
2006-06-12 08:12:07 · answer #10 · answered by harrierzero1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋