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Page 2President:Nancy B. ClarkPO Box 427Marstons Mills, MA President:Gerald (Jerry) NylanderPO Box 7123Prospect Hgts., IL Secretary:Gerald (Jerry) Johnson6621 W. Victoria , WA G. Hendren12737 Glenage Hts., MO Wawrukiewicz3130 SW Wilbard , OR B. QuinePO Box 153Bethel, CT NafzigerPO Box 1476Albany, OR MerendaPO Box 20069Ferndale, MI (Publicity):John HotchnerPO Box 1125Falls Church, VA Markings - Issue 10 April 2006AUTOMATING THE mail FORWARDING PROCESSby Michael M. LudemanIn the October 25, 2004, Notes column in Linn s StampNews, AMC member John Hotchner mentioned the U. S. PostalService s most recent effort to automate return-to-sender that column Bernie Moening of the Lima, Ohio post officeprovided a brief description of the new Postal Automated Redi-rection System, or PARS, focusing on its ability to automate themarkup of this return-to-sender mail endorsement. As a resultof this column, I received an inquiry from another AMC memberwho wondered if PARS could be the source of the ink-jet spraymarking return-to-sender endorsements that Nancy, Tony and Iwrote about in the April 2005 issue of the Auxiliary was a good question and one which I had consideredwhen I first read about PARS in the 2004 edition of the Compre-hensive Statement on Postal Operations.

Page 3 Auxiliary Markings - Issue 10 April 2006 module with an ink-jet printer and a small number of output sortation bins. At the post office level, the letter carriers and clerks continued

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