Three charities distribute new business reply envelopes

I’ve spent a lot of my “stamp time” over the past two or three months working on my landscape stamp album pages, but with that project just about wrapped up (more on that at a later date), it’s time to work through the interesting material that has been sitting in my mail tray for weeks or months on end. Today, the focus is on new business reply envelopes bearing stamp-like preprinted images.

We’ll kick things off with this envelope that arrived in a mailing from The Alzheimer’s Disease Fund. The roughly stamp-sized images picture a hiker standing on a rocky outcropping in the mountains, the U.S. Capitol, a head comprised of gears, and the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

If you think that man in the mountains looks vaguely familiar, you’re right. Exactly the same image was used on the BRE enclosed in a National Police Association mailing that I mentioned back in July! I’m not aware of any connection between the two organizations, but I presume they must be using the same outfit to prepare their mailings, and that outfit is apparently reusing some of their graphics.

Next up is an envelope that came from the American Parkinson Disease Association. It features three copies of a design picturing yellow flowers on a blue background--two oriented vertically and the other horizontally—that I originally saw used on an envelope in conjunction with other designs over the summer. At that time, I thought perhaps the magenta ink had been exhausted when that envelope was printed, but this example makes it seem as though the light color scheme was intentional.

Finally, we conclude this batch of BREs with two different examples that were enclosed in mailings from Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch. One of the envelopes has three copies of an image picturing a yellow rose, while the other envelope has three copies of a stamp-sized photograph of a yellow flower.

And that brings us up to speed on business reply envelopes. I have more things to write about, but that will have to wait until next time.

Published 2024-09-12