russellhltn wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 8:06 pm
garystroble wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 6:41 pm
Our ward has a new bishop and envelopes were ordered on-line 6 weeks ago today. I emailed last Friday and got a prompt answer Saturday, they are behind on production due to some new equipment. As of today the order is still not shipped.
And they haven't sent any pre-printed address labels so you can use the old ones?
I always found that a bit amusing as I suspect the self-stick labels cost about as much as the envelopes.
Distribution has never provided stickers in the way suggested above to my knowledge. While we could obviously print our own stickers, at one point in the many times I have been a clerk or in a bishopric there was an urgent bulletin from headquarters that we were not allowed to put stickers over previous bishop's addresses on tithing envelopes, ever. It has been quite a while and I cannot locate the bulletin, but in the past the Church has also pre-printed the U.S. Postal Service bar code on the tithing envelopes for use in the United States, not sure if they still do. Assume that was also a security thing so that the mail could not be redirected with a sticker, as the bar code contains the mailing address.
$37.15 is the current cost for a box of 900 personalized tithing envelopes and donation slips on the Church store web page, 750 Office Depot labels are currently $13.99. If we could just order envelopes it might be less than $37.15 as the shipping cost to the Church would be lowered, but that is not an option on the on-line Church store web page. Meanwhile we are swimming in donation slips which continue to accumulate every time a new bishop is called. I see that blank envelopes with no pre-printed address on them are 2 cents each. Hmm, somewhat of a savings, about half price, though if we add the cost of the stickers hardly any savings at all.