snail mail

Snail mail program? What do you mean? You are in the forum for the application Pages that is a word processor and page layout application. Have you tried it?

If you mean with regular mail that you write it on the computer, then print , fold and put into an envelope it will work fine as any word processor will.

VinceEB wrote:

I was told it works for regular mail

Could you explain what you mean by that? What word processor do you know of that does not "work for regular mail?"

Snail mail to me is mail through the post office. Paper, envelopes and stamps, yo know?

Vince,

Avery has a program called Design Pro, I believe, that will print from your list to their labels. I haven't used it. I started the download once, but it was shaping up to be such a large file that I aborted it. Others have expressed satisfaction.

My preference is to Mail Merge from Numbers or Contacts to Pages, but it's a bit complicated.

Jerry

Hi, Vince. I'm in the same boat as you. I loved MyMailList. Lots of programs out there to make the coolest labels in the world. Lots of programs to let me manage email lists. I just want something to manage my snail mail lists. Have you ever found anything?

You just lead us up the garden path using the wrong expression.

Snail mail is paper mail posted through your postal service.

If you want to just have a label printing application, Pages can make up a set of personal Return to: labels.

Otherwise if you want to make labels addressed to the people you are sending mail to, use Contacts which has all the Avery labels built into its Print dialog box. Contacts has sophisticated label formatting, you can even add graphics, and lets you simply drag addresses into Groups for batch printing.

Personally I prefer window face envelopes as you can't misapply the label to the wrong letter and it is a once off, print the letter, and stick it in the envelope.

Failing that, print the address directly onto the envelope

The label seems entirely redundant, they come in large batches so always waste some, and doing just one is a real pain.

Peter

I'm having the same problem here that the original questioner had, and that the guys at my local Apple store had. The program that he originally referrred to, MyMailList, is the perfect mailing list management tool. It does everything you'd ever want a mailing list to do, and nothing else. Yes, there are dozens of programs, including Contacts, Pages, Excel, Word and on aand on that will let me print labels. I do want that, but his is so much more. It allows me to have both check box and data fields so I can keep track of different mailing lists, keep notes on people, etc. without printing that info on the labels. It lets me sort any way I want, hide any category of entry, compute how many records are in a particular group, I can display evertbody in one zip code, or everybody BUT who's in that zip code. It will search for duplicates in any field I tell it to. And I can't use window envelopes because I'm mostly mailing postcards.

And I don't need a program that does email. Nor do I need it to do mail merge letters. I just want something that manages a snail mailing list. Basically MyMail List is the perfect program. The ******** just quit making it for the Mac.

Avantquest may be just as frustrated with Apple and its retrograde changes as us.

If they abandoned MyMailList for Mac they would have done it because it didn't pay and Apple probably made the constant ugrading and lack of backward compatibility just too much work.

Also judging by the latest reports from Australia Post, snail mail, if not dead, is dying.

My local Post Office seems to be simply flooded with packages and not much in the way of letters. Every organisation I know offers incentives to choose eMail delivery over physical.

That's just the way it is. My father is the only person I know who writes and sends letters. I haven't written and posted one in years.

I sold my Fax a decade ago.

Peter

Contacts has a Notes area that I use extensively.

For most of your other requirements maybe you need a Database, or look for the data management in most accounting packages.

Have a look at LibreOffice [free] which has a database in the suite.

Peter