GroundCrew Envelopes

One of my responsibilities at MMS is to help with the mailing of the GroundCrew newsletter. Karen keeps track of the mailing list.  Weeks before the mailing she will send out each MMS family's personal mailing list.  When she gets the lists back she edits the master list as needed. With the labels hot off the printer my responsibility begins.  Last week I sorted 6,111 labels and grouped together certain zip codes.  I grouped the labels together and put each group of labels with a box of envelopes.  The boxes then went home to the MMS wives...my "sticky ladies." They will stick the labels to the envelopes and bring the boxes back.  I will then put approximately 250 envelopes in each mailing tray.  Before the GroundCrew can be "stuffed" into the envelopes each newsletter needs a return envelope stuck inside of it.  The return envelopes get folded by the young people of MMS.  Those envelopes are then stuck into the GroundCrew by a group of ladies from a local church.  When the newsletter is ready the MMS ladies will meet for an evening and tackle the job of putting the newsletters into the labeled envelopes.  The next morning I'll take a check and the proper paper work along with approximately 24 trays of mail to the post office.  If all goes well a few days later people all over the world will be reading the latest news about MMS Aviation. 

Here I am surrounded by boxes of envelopes ready to go home to my "sticky ladies" and young return envelope folders.