Courtesy reply mail, or CRM, is a type of mail in which a business sends pre-printed, self-addressed envelopes or postcards to customers, who then affix postage stamps to the envelopes or postcards and mail them back to the business. 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 A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick Paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an Envelope and A postage stamp is an adhesive paper evidence of pre-paying a fee for postal services [1] Alternatively, the business can disseminate the envelopes or postcards with stamps already affixed, similarly to metered reply mail. Metered reply mail or MRM is a type of mail in which a business sends pre-printed self-addressed envelopes or postcards to customers with postage prepaid on the envelopes
Courtesy reply mail differs from business reply mail in the manner of payment of postage, namely, by stamp when the mail is sent, rather than by the permit holder when the mail is received. Freepost is a postal service provided by various Postal administrations whereby a person sends Mail without affixing Postage, and the recipient pays the Courtesy reply mail is typically used when a response is practically guaranteed, e. g. , bill payments.
In the United States, the United States Postal Service specifies that the envelopes or postcards for courtesy reply mail should be printed with a FIM A code. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The Facing Identification Mark or FIM is a Bar code designed by the United States Postal Service to assist in the automated processing of Mail The POSTNET bar code can be printed on the envelope or postcard; alternatively, it can be printed on a payment coupon so that the bar code is visible through the window of a window envelope when the payment coupon is inserted. Example The above-mentioned example of 55555-1237 yields Sum is 38 The check digit is therefore 2 The data encoded will
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- ^ "Encouraging Customers to Reply", from the USPS
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