[Psml] CGAux and USPS

[AlLakin at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/30/2007 6:14:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
edkydd at palmnet.net writes:

This might be a great opportunity, If we could prepare a letter of invitation 
and have it forwarded to the former USCGA members.   


Would it be possible to supply the name of the nearest USPS Squadron.


P/C Edward M. Kydd 
Cocoa Beach Squadron.


To do it right, you'd want to personalize every letter with a snippet saying 
something like "Podunk Power Squadron serves your area.  Podunk's membership 
committee chairman is Samson Post; Sam's phone number is 999-555-1212".  That's 
easy enough to do with a form letter and mail merge.  Letters would be 
individually printed -- not much more expensive than photocopying if you used a 
high-end printer-copier.  
 
USPS could provide a data table for the mail merge.  We already have a tool 
on the Web Site that takes a Zip Code and returns a squadron name.  I think the 
lookup includes a current squadron contact.  If it doesn't, we can harvest 
the information from the recent crop of OD-2's..
 
The rest is up to the Auxiliary.  They have offered to send letters on our 
behalf.  They're not going to give us a mailing list of former Auxiliarists, 
just as USPS wouldn't give out a list of former squadron members.  If they're 
willing to do a personalized mail merge for us, so much the better.
 
Al Lakin
Valley Ho   D/13



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