Abstract: Apparatus to create on demand customized cardboard for forming individually designed packaging boxes, said cardboard having at least one corrugated layer sandwiched between two flat layers, the apparatus comprising a joining station that attaches a second flat layer to a corrugated layer attached to a first layer, supply system to supply said corrugated layer with the first flat layer attached thereto to said joining station, supply system to supply said second flat layer to said joining station, a control system operable to obtain information on the dimensions of a packaging box to be formed and on a design selected for that box and further operable to match the selected design to the dimensions of the box and a printing unit to print the matched design on the first and/or on the second flat layer.

Abstract: A system for providing a shipping label and a packing list on a container is provided which enables rapid and automated sequential application of a packing list and a shipping label to the container. The shipping label is configured complemental to the packing list whereby the packing list may first be adhered directly to the container and then the shipping label may be placed thereover. The shipping label may be applied over the packing list while the container moves continuously down a conveyor. The invention further includes an apparatus for sequentially applying the packing list and then the shipping label, and a method for applying the packing list and shipping label in registry.

Abstract: A package for an optical storage medium, comprising first and second parts; a window located in the first part; a third part sandwiched in a region between the first and second parts; wherein the first, second and third parts define a receptacle in a further region where the third part is not sandwiched between the first and second parts; wherein the window and the third part are arranged such that when the optical storage medium is placed in the receptacle, the optical storage medium abuts the third part and a predefined area of the optical storage medium is perceptible through the window.

Abstract: A system for providing a shipping label and a packing list on a container is provided which enables rapid and automated sequential application of a packing list and a shipping label to the container. The shipping label is configured complemental to the packing list whereby the packing list may first be adhered directly to the container and then the shipping label may be placed thereover. The shipping label may be applied over the packing list while the container moves continuously down a conveyor. The invention further includes an apparatus for sequentially applying the packing list and then the shipping label, and a method for applying the packing list and shipping label in registry.

Abstract: A system for providing a shipping label and a packing list on a container is provided which enables rapid and automated sequential application of a packing list and a shipping label to the container. The shipping label is configured complemental to the packing list whereby the packing list may first be adhered directly to the container and then the shipping label may be placed thereover. The shipping label may be applied over the packing list while the container moves continuously down a conveyor. The invention further includes an apparatus for sequentially applying the packing list and then the shipping label, and a method for applying the packing list and shipping label in registry.

Abstract: Objects, such as packages are marked for exterior labeling and to provide for easily locating such information. In a first embodiment, an information focal edge, or IFE is made by graphically “capturing” at least two corners of the object and connecting them with a marking, e.g., with ink. By “capturing” it is meant that the corner is marked on all sides forming the corner adjacent to the corner. In an alternative embodiment, two corners are captured using a structural edge or by otherwise marking an edge, thereby providing an “information focal edge,” or IFE. The IFE identifies a priority location where information should be placed so that it can be quickly found no matter how the object is viewed.

Abstract: A direct mail package is provided. The package includes a transparent cylindrical tube with two press-fitted end caps. An enclosure certificate is folded along orthogonal fold lines to provide four plies. As folded, the length of the enclosure is substantially equal to the length of the tube and the height of the folded enclosure is greater than the diameter of the tube but less than the inside circumference of the tube. When the folded certificate is deformed to fit inside the tube, it conforms substantially to the inside curvature of the transparent tube. The exposed convex quadrant contains postal information visible through the transparent tube. The arc of the plane thus formed frames a gap between its opposite lineal edges. This gap frames a window allowing display of a promotional token inside the tube.

Abstract: A box having a bottom panel, a rear panel, a front panel and two pairs of opposed side panels in which two pair of opposed side panels in which two pair of triangular connecting panels each have a fold line such that when the folding panel portions are folded inwardly or outwardly, the other panels move upwardly to form the box or downwardly, respectively to enable access to the contents of the box.

Abstract: A tri-fold protective mailer for a stress-sensitive article. The protective mailer comprises a three-section, substantially-rectangular panel having a pocket on one outermost section for securing the stress-sensitive article. When the mailer is folded, the article is captured between the overlapping sections of the panel such that the stress-sensitive article is inaccessible from the exterior of the mailer. The pocket is positioned and configured such that the mailer can be handled by automated handling equipment without a significant risk of damage to the stress-sensitive article.

Abstract: A business form or mailer intermediate providing fold-over carbonless imaging is provided. The form or mailer includes separate CB and CF coating portions on a single sheet. When the form or mailer is folded about a fold line, the CB portion comes in contact with the CF portion. An image is created when the fold-over carbonless area is subjected to an imaging force.

Abstract: All information required for sending a business form mailer to a recipient, a preconstructable return envelope and a return data receipt are printed on a single side of a Z-foldable form.

Abstract: A pressure seal business form including a sheet having a front and a back, top edge, bottom edge, first and second longitudinal edges, at least two panels separated by at least one fold line, longitudinal lines of weakness parallel to the first and second longitudinal edges forming a first and second longitudinal margin portion, horizontal patterns of pressure seal cohesive, and a longitudinal pattern of cohesive positioned in the first and second margin portions defined by at least one individual cohesive configuration. Each individual configuration of cohesive being defined by a first line AB including end points A and B and a second line CD having end points C and D. Line AB and CD are parallel to each other and to the longitudinal edges of the sheet. A third line BD having end points B and D and a fourth line AC having end points A and C. Lines BD and AC are parallel to each other. The angle ABD between lines AB and BD is less than 90.degree..

Abstract: An intermediate for a mailer type business form, and a mailer produced from it, allow construction, from a single sheet of paper, of a mailer type business form that has a confidential integral insert closed on all edges. Confidential indicia is imaged on the interior faces of the insert, and is accessible only by tearing along at least one edge of the insert, which indicates tampering. Double fold, roll fold, or other folds may be provided for forming the mailer from the intermediate. For double fold and roll fold constructions, no security screening is necessary, yet the confidential indicia is substantially as secure as if security screening had been provided.

Abstract: A business form or mailer intermediate providing fold-over carbonless imaging is provided. The form or mailer includes separate CB and CF coating portions on a single sheet. When the form or mailer is folded about a fold line, the CB portion comes in contact with the CF portion. An image is created when the fold-over carbonless area is subjected to an imaging force.

Abstract: Transporting items of bulk, i.e., stacked documents or boxed merchandise, which vary in extent from time to time, in an envelope that gives a desired favorable appearance of containing an item of bulk that is greater than the bulk of the item that is actually the content of the envelope, which motivates the recipient to open the envelope. The envelope is rectangular and at least along three sides has isosceles shaped gussets characterized by progressively diminishing clearance between the sides in the direction of the apex, so that the thickness or bulk of the item in the envelope is effectively engaged by the sides of the isosceles triangles before significant shifting, particularly of stacked documents, can occur as might diminish the perceived bulk based on the external appearance of the envelope.

Abstract: A mailer blank adapted to be folded into a mailer has front and back sides and adhesive bands on the front side and on the back side for securing the blank in its folded configuration. At least one of the adhesive bands on the front side is aligned with at least one of the adhesive bands on the back side, the aligned adhesive bands on the front side and on the back side comprising a series of spaced shaped patches. The patches comprising the adhesive band on the front side are shaped and spaced with respect to the patches comprising the adhesive band on the back side that when the mailer blanks are stacked one on top of the other, the patches comprising the adhesive band on a side of the mailer blank do not align with the patches comprising the adhesive band on the opposite side of the adjacent blank.

Abstract: The mailer assembly is used for direct mail applications. Upon removal of tear strips at each side of the mailer assembly, an insert is formed from a panel secured within the mailer which is able to fall free of the mailer. The mailer assembly may be provided with two or more panels to form two or more free inserts. In one embodiment, the mailer assembly may be constructed with a return envelope into which a free insert may be folded and stuffed.

Abstract: An improvement in the making of a rectangular envelope by folding adjoining triangular corner flaps on a rectangular sheet, and also in the resulting envelopes themselves and the blank sheets from which they are made, whereby certain sheet edge sections on each pair of adjoining triangular flaps become exactly aligned and partially coincident and an overlap of the last-folded closure flap is of uniform width throughout its length, all by application of particular mathematical formulae.

Abstract: A special service mailpiece having an integral document section and a method for forming the mailpiece requiring special services are provided. The mailpiece has an integral document section requiring special service mailing and includes a sheet folded into a section along a fold line then sealed to close the integral document section. The sheet further has a removably attached section which, after the system is folded and sealed, forms a return postcard and at least one form. The return postcard and the form are integrally formed, but removably attached, such that the return postcard remains attached to the mailpiece until received by the addressee at which time it may be removed.

Abstract: In a method of making sealed paper, a web of paper is unrolled and fed, while under a given tension, from a paper roll, and is single-folded or multiple-folded. Prior to the or each folding step, the unrolled web of paper is treated by having an adhesive applied to margin portions thereof destined to be margins of the sealed paper on an inner surface thereof other than along a fold line at which the paper is to be folded. The folded web of paper is then cut to yield a number of sealable paper units so treated and folded as above. The method further includes pressing the sealable paper units to have them sealed with the adhesive applied and thereafter discharging the sealed paper units each of which represents a sealed paper. The method may further include printing a given message or information on a sheet of paper before the paper is rolled into the above mentioned paper roll.

Abstract: A C-fold type business form having three panels formed from a single sheet of paper that is C-folded about fold lines is specifically adapted to be used for certified or registered mail. Certified or registered mail return receipt indicia is imaged on the third panel first and second faces, including a signature line imaged on the third panel first face, and a plurality of lines of weakness are formed in the third panel to define a return receipt card with the return receipt indicia on it. Certified or registered mail notification indicia is imaged on the second panel first face, as well as variable outgoing address indicia. Green printing is provided on the third panel in at least the area of the return receipt card. The return receipt card is readily removable from the rest of the mailer with a minimum of perf lines provided, but optionally with tacking adhesive adjacent the return receipt card holding the third and first panels together.

Abstract: A mailer with a return envelope includes a base substrate having a first region and a second region, a first perforated portion extending transversely across the base substrate separating the first region and the second region, an adhesive material disposed in a substantially encircling manner on an area of the first region substantially forming about an enclosed area of the first region, a printable substrate of a complimentary configuration to the base substrate and mated to the base substrate and having a first region and a second region of a complimentary configuration to the first region and the second region of the base, an adhesive material disposed between the second region of the printable substrate and the second region of the base substrate, a second perforated portion extending transversely across the printable substrate separating the first region and the second region of the printable substrate adjacent to the first perforated portion of the base substrate and a third perforated portion extendin

Abstract: A business form is provided that can be constructed into a two-way mailer. The form contains pre-printed non-varying information. The form user prints variable information on the front face of the form. The form is foldable in a Z-fold about two substantially parallel fold lines. The fold lines divide the form into three generally equally sized sections. Segments of pressure-sensitive adhesive material are disposed on front and rear faces of the form for sealing open outer edges of the form after it has been folded to form a sealed mailer. A recipient of the mailer can open the mailer and construct a return envelope from it. For this purpose, the form includes segments of remoistenable adhesive disposed on the rear face of form to seal open outer edges of the form.

Abstract: A special service mailpiece having an integral document section and a method for forming the mailpiece requiring special services are provided. The mailpiece has an integral document section requiring special service mailing and includes a sheet folded into sections along a fold line, then sealed to enclose the integral document section. The sheet further has a removably attached section which, after the system is folded and sealed, forms a return postcard and at least one form. The return postcard and the form are integrally formed, but removably attached, such that the return postcard remains attached to the mailpiece until received by the addressee at which time it may be removed.

Abstract: In the production of mailer type business forms, particularly from a web in a roll configuration having a plurality of business form intermediates, with pressure sensitive cohesive, the problem of cohesive blocking (sticking together) at inopportune times is avoided by spacing substantially linear patterns of the cohesive disposed in the detachable side edges of the intermediates so that when the intermediates are in the roll configuration the cohesive from one intermediate does not engage the cohesive from another. Preferably the cohesive patterns on one face of the intermediate are spaced from the parallel cohesive patterns on the second face of the intermediate by about 1-15 mm, preferably about one centimeter.

Abstract: The present invention provides for the use of contact adhesives to secure separate sheets of multiple ply documents together during the printing and collating process to form finished documents, such as integrated letters and envelopes, billing statements, invoices, etc. The contact adhesive patterns are alternatingly offset or staggered on facing surfaces of adjacent sheets, either in a continuous feed interfolded stack or in a stack of separate sheets. In this manner, the adjacent sheets remain free of one another, as the contact adhesive disposed on each facing surface does not come in contact. Yet, the adhesive pattern on every other sheet is identical, to allow corresponding sheets from another like stack to be glued to those of the first stack. Different staggered adhesive arrays may be provided, to allow the assembly of documents having various numbers of plies therein, and for the forming and assembly of address labels to properly configured envelopes, etc.

Abstract: A new type of folding box is disclosed, which is designed for redispatching to a second location, after it has been received at a first location. This box, which can be made from a single flat pre-cut blank, of cardboard or other suitable material, has two lids: an inner lid, and an outer lid. The outer lid is printed, stamped, or affixed with advertising information, a first mailing address, or other useful lettering, to facilitate a first delivery or sale. The inner lid, which is initially covered and preferably hidden by the outer lid, is printed or stamped with a second lettering, such as a second mailing or delivery address. The user purchases or otherwise receives the complete box, including the outer lid, and carries out any desired function with the contents of that box. For example, if the box contains collection jars, for holding blood, hair, water, or soil samples, the user would fill the jars with such samples or specimens.

Abstract: A mailer product is described which can be sold free of external packaging thus allowing single unit quantities to be sold at a reasonable price. The product is provided with a separable merchandiser panel containing desired merchandising information connected to the product at a perforated line with notches at each end for ease of separation. A vertical extension on one side of the merchandiser panel allows merchandising information to be provided above merchandising hook level in an area heretofore wasted.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a postcard check which can be automatically processed by the U.S. Postal Service and a check clearinghouse. The postcard check meets all the dimensional requirements set forth by the U.S. Postal Service to be classified as a postcard. Moreover, on one side of the postcard check, a postal bar code is placed and positioned such that the postal bar code permits the U.S. Postal Service to automatically process the postcard check through the U.S. mail system. Furthermore, on the other side of the postcard check, a MICR number is placed to allow the check to be processed automatically at a clearinghouse and the banks. Since the postal bar code and the MICR number are on opposite sides of the postcard check, the MICR number is not mutilated by the U.S. Postal Service when it automatically processes the check.

Abstract: An eccentric Z-fold mailer intermediate, and mailer produced from the intermediate, offers a significant saving in mailing a customer merchandise return mailer. A sheet of paper (typically 8 1/2.times.14 inches) has first and second fold lines parallel to the top and bottom edges and dividing the sheet into first through third panels, the second and third panels of substantially the same size and shape (e.g. and a length of about 5.75 inches), and the first panel of a smaller length (e.g. about 2.5 inches). A blow on mailing label assembly, including a release liner adhesively attached to the sheet and a merchandise return label including merchandise label return tracking indicia is adhesively secured to the release liner, is provided on the first face of the third panel. A series of patterns of pressure activated cohesive, e.g. disposed in separable margin strips, hold the mailer panels together in a Z-fold configuration, with outgoing address indicia on the first face of the first panel.

Abstract: A system and a method for mailing a mailpiece requiring special service delivery is provided as well as a mailpiece that requires delivery by a special service. The assembled mailpiece includes a return postcard and a return envelope independently detachable from a remainder of the mailpiece. The mailpiece may be printed with information to be sent to an addressee by a sender. The sender may receive a return postcard verifying delivery of the mailpiece, and the sender, or another individual, may also receive a remittance in the return envelope also independently detachable from the assembled mailpiece. The assembled mailpiece is formed from a single sheet that may be printed with variable information on both sides of the sheet. The information may relate to the mail handling or to other information to be sent to the individual. The assembly is particularly suitable for special service delivery of mail including return remittance of payment or the like.

Abstract: Card carrying mailing forms (10, 80) with a planar resilient body of paper (12, 82) having fold lines (14, 16 and 84, 86) equally dividing the body (12, 82) into a leading end section (18, 88), a middle section (20, 90) and a lagging end section (22, 92). In one embodiment of the carrier form (10) ears (66) are opened by bending the planar body (12) to receive cards held within a pair of corner pockets (38, 40) by a flap (50) cut from the middle section (20) of the body (12) which also is moved to an operative position by bending the body (12). In another embodiment of the carrier form (80), pockets (98, 100) are made from rectilinear cuts to enable opening of the pockets (98, 100) by means of a roller and the cards (30) are held in the pockets by folding the lagging end section (88) over the middle section (90) adjacent the edge (102) of the card (30).

Abstract: A special service mailpiece having at least on integral document section and a method for forming the mailpiece requiring special services is provided. The mailpiece has an integral document section requiring special mailing service and includes a sheet folded into sections along a fold line then sealed to enclose the integral document section. The sheet further has a removably attached section which, after the system is folded and sealed, forms a return postcard and at least one form. The return postcard and the form are integrally formed, but removably attached, such that the return postcard remains attached to the mailpiece until received by the addressee at which time it may be removed.

Abstract: A packing box made from a patterned cardboard having a bottom panel, a top panel, two side panels, a front panel, and a rear panel, wherein a rectangular bottom frame is extended from one long side of the bottom panel remote from the front panel, having two adhesion flaps respectively extended from one long side and one short side thereof and adhered to the bottom panel at an outer side, defining with the bottom panel a bottom window and an insertion hole at one side for the insertion of a card into the bottom window; a rectangular top frame is extended from one long side of one side panel remote from the bottom panel, having two adhesion flaps respectively extended from one long side and one short side thereof and adhered to the top panel at an outer side, defining with the top panel a top window and an insertion hole at one side for the insertion of a card into the top window.

Abstract: A business form intermediate with pressure activated cohesive in separable side margins is otherwise conventional except for the particular patterns of cohesive. The patterns prevent cupping (i.e. flexing or distortion) of the vertical edges. Substantially straight line series of substantially rectangular spots having dimensions about 1/4 inch by 1/8 inch, and spaced from each other about 1/2 inch, are preferably provided, along the vertical (side) edges of the intermediate on at least one face, and preferably both faces (not staggered horizontally, but not significantly vertically overlapping, from one face to the other).

Abstract: A mailer blank, which may be configured for subsequent printing and folding processes, includes a transparent sheet and an attached opaque layer, both of which extend between longitudinal and transverse edges. An aperture is formed within the opaque layer. In a first version, the mailer blank also includes a second opaque layer, having an aperture aligned with the aperture of the first opaque layer, similarly extending between the longitudinal and transverse edges. Both the first and second layers are paper, adhesively attached to opposite sides of the transparent layer. In a second version, the opaque layer is a ultra-violet ink coating. In a third version, a paper layer is attached to one side of the transparent sheet, with a pocket being formed between one of the paper layers and the sheet for use as a return envelope.

Abstract: An intermediate for a C-fold mailer type business form is provided that does not cup or distort as a result of pressure sensitive cohesive provided on both the face and the back of the same panel. This improves the processing of the intermediate through cut sheet laser printers and post-processing equipment, and allows for easier stacking during manufacture. A sheet of paper having first and second faces and opposite parallel longitudinal edges has first and second transverse fold lines forming a sheet into three panels, and first and second longitudinal lines of weakness forming longitudinal marginal portions with the longitudinal edges.

Abstract: An envelope intermediate having an integral mail-back piece is provided. The intermediate is formed form a single sheet of substrate material divided into four panels by fold lines. A first and second ply is provided in two adjacent panels so that when the intermediate is folded, a mail-back piece is created. The mail-back piece may be either a two-ply card or envelope. Provisions for a removable partition are also included.

Abstract: A business form or mailer intermediate having a built-in laminated portion is provided. The form or mailer includes a base ply provided on or in one panel and a film ply provided in a second panel. When the form or mailer is folded about a fold line, the film ply adheres to the base ply with a laminating adhesive. The base ply to be laminated may be a card or label.

Abstract: A folded single sheet mailer is provided which comprises a rectangular sheet (12) provided with transverse and longitudinal lines of perforation and transverse and longitudinal glue lines. The sheet (12) is folded onto itself along a transverse fold line (14) which is offset with respect to the center of the sheet (12). The sheet (12) is then folded along a plurality of secondary fold lines (28,30) and sealed to produce an outgoing envelope which can be mailed. The mailer includes a return envelope for use when placing an order.

Abstract: A card package assembly and method of manufacture thereof allow simple and inexpensive production of desirable products, particularly useful for telephone debit cards. A web of card stock is imaged on both first and second faces with indicia (preferably variable and non-variable), and the faces are spot coated with plastic at spaced locations equal to the length of card package ultimately separated from the web. A card is formed from or out of each of the spot coated plastic locations, by die cutting, or with lines of weakness such as perforations. The form is narrower at the card, and adhesive patterns outside the card portions hold other panels of the package together once folded over to sandwich the card between other panels. The cards may be produced from a web one package wide, or from a web two or even more packages wide. A bang tail is preferably provided connected to the card, and of the same width, with a perforation separating the bang tail from the card and coupon indicia imaged on the bang tail.

Abstract: A mailer is comprised of multiple plies of carbonless paper secured one to the other along opposite edges by hot or cold adhesive. Pressure seal adhesive is applied along longitudinally and transversely extending tear strips of the intermediate assembly such that upon folding the plies about a medial scoreline, the pressure seal adhesives register with corresponding pressure seal adhesives on the opposite parts. SpeediSealer.RTM. equipment is used to apply pressure to the margins of the folded intermediate to adhere the parts to one another to form the mailer.

Abstract: A color brochure with integral return mailer includes a single piece of paper which is folded along three fold lines to define four panels and eight panel sides. One side of the piece of paper is imprinted in color and the other side is imprinted in black and white only. On the color side, the first two adjacent panel sides are printed as a full bleed double panel color display, the panel side immediately below the full bleed display is imprinted with a reply form which may also include color, and the last panel side on the color side is imprinted with the first page color display. On the black and white side, the first panel side is imprinted with a business reply prepaid postage and return address, the second panel side is printed with the back page display and the last two panel sides are left blank. When the blank panel sides are folded to face each other, an envelope pocket is created and the blank panel sides are sealed at their edges in a conventional way.

Abstract: A folded single sheet mailer is provided which comprises a rectangular sheet (12) provided with transverse and longitudinal lines of perforation and transverse and longitudinal glue lines. The sheet (12) is folded onto itself along a transverse fold line (14) which is offset with respect to the center of the sheet (12). The sheet (12) is then folded along a plurality of secondary fold lines (28,30) and sealed to produce an outgoing envelope which can be mailed. The mailer includes a return envelope for use when placing an order.

Abstract: The envelope is of generally conventional structure and carries an integral extension which may be opened prior to opening of the envelope. The extension may carry an advertising message or the like to make a high impact on a recipient. In one embodiment, the extension is of multi-panel construction and has a tab extending from one panel to secure the extension to the back ply of the envelope. In another embodiment, one panel of the extension may be secured directly to the back ply of the envelope, for example, via a fugitive glue which permits a subsequent release of the extension from the back ply for viewing purposes.

Abstract: A card carrier for transport of a phone card, credit card, debit card, etc. is of paper or plastic card stock with a multi-colored design ion deposition printed on one face and a PIN and control number on the other. During production the card is part of a blow on label, attached to the rest of the label by repositional adhesive, and the blow on label is blown onto a first opaque paper carrier web inner surface, permanent adhesive affixing the label to that surface. The outer surface of the first carrier web is imaged just like the front of the card, simulating the card. A second opaque paper ply is affixed by permanent adhesive to the first ply overlying the second face of the card, but with a cutout aligned with the control number so that the control number may be viewed from exterior of the carrier. To open the carrier perforations are provided inside a permanent adhesive strip along one edge of the card, providing a tamperproof feature, i.e.

Abstract: According to the invention, there is provided a continuous envelope and letter arrangement for printing letters and envelope address information on a continuous paper web having a forward side for receiving printing and a back side, lateral edge strips with sprocket holes on the paper web, alternating envelope and letter panels disposed along the paper web, and tear-off lines disposed transversely between the edge strips for separating the envelope and letter panels, and adhesive means on the envelope panels for sealing the envelopes. According to a further feature, the continuous envelope and letter arrangement includes lateral tear-off lines on the paper web for separating the edge strips from the paper web, and further, a center crease line on the envelope panel, disposed transversely between the edge strips for dividing the envelope panels into two substantially equal size half panels, the half panels respectively forming a front and a back side of the envelope.

Abstract: A business form intermediate comprises a sheet that is Z-folded first about first and second fold lines to define an outgoing mailer. The business form has first, second and third panels with an outgoing address area on the first face of the third panel, and an O.P.A.S. patch on the first face of the first panel. The patch obscures a PIN number or other confidential information underneath it. Pressure seal adhesive formed along the margins of the paper sheet of the intermediate holds the panels together once Z-folded. Masking is applied on panel faces as necessary in order to obscure all interior information of the mailer. A reply mailer may be constructed from the second and third panels using a window in the third panel overlying reply address indicia on the second panel first face and rewettable adhesive strips on the second panel first face.

Abstract: A first sheet of large (e.g. 81/2.times.11 inch) size and a second sheet connected by adhesive to the first sheet only at a reply envelope portion, form a mailer type business form. The first sheet is eccentrically Z-folded about fold lines to produce the mailer, with permanent adhesive sealing the panels of the mailer together, the return envelope being disposed within the mailer. Located next to the return envelope inside the mailer, separated by a perforation line, is a reply statement portion having reply statement indicia printed on it. The entire intermediate may be simplex printed because of its eccentric Z-shape configuration.

Abstract: A postcard mailer may also be used as a reply postcard. A sheet of paper between one-half of and the minimum weight of a postcard, is printed with reply and return address indicia on the top face of one side of an intermediate fold line, while the sheet on the other side of the fold line is printed with instructional or inquisitive indicia. A removable label printed with outgoing address indicia is disposed over the reply address indicia. A line of weakness parallel to the top edge defines the sheet into first and second panels, the second panel having at least the minimum dimensions of a postcard. Adhesive patterns are provided on the bottom face of the sheet, on both the first and second panels. The sheet is folded about an intermediate fold line and the adhesive is sealed, producing an outgoing postcard. By detachment at the line of weakness, and removing the label, the mailer is transformed into a reply postcard.