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Whatever life milestone you’re about to reach, whether it’s marriage…
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Or having a baby…
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Or you’re about to graduate…
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Or maybe you’re just getting ready to mail out your holiday cards or throw a big birthday bash!
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Whatever is going on in your life, you’re about to be in need of all the mailing addresses from friends and family.
And let’s get real. Nobody has those anymore.
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Now, you could go one of two ways to collect all those mailing addresses.
ONE — you could try to collect them all yourself.
Or TWO — you could use Postable’s handy address collecting tool to do it for you.
So let’s see if we can’t break it down one pathway at a time.
Option ONE: You decide to go at it yourself.
First, you start off by daydreaming how much fun you’re about to have organizing allll those addresses.
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You decide you’ll set up your own handy spreadsheet. Because who doesn’t love spreadsheets!?
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Then you start and realize… You haven’t used Excel since your high school biology class and what in the world are all these buttons?!
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But you plunge ahead anyway by reaching out to all your friends and relatives.
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That’s when your phone begins to ring uncontrollably night and day… (Mostly with irrelevant questions instead of the mailing address you asked for.)
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You try to keep up and input all the info in your spreadsheet…
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But somehow you’re still missing some.
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So you go back through your calls and text messages (it’s been days… NO weeks at this point) to find the missing info.
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Now, let’s see what happens when you go with option TWO.
Use Postable to collect mailing addresses…
You text (facebook message or email) your friends and family a unique Postable link.
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Then sit back with a cocktail and browse the wedding catalog as all of the mailing addresses begin to appear in your Postable address book.
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