Michigan Today . . . June 1996

Misaddressed Michigan Todays

Many readers have noticed, and some have sharply complained about, the out-of-date labels affixed to recent Michigan Today mailings bearing joint labels---that is, labels with two addressees in the same household. We apologize for the irritation this has caused many readers.

Recently, the U-M office that supplies our labels added some joint-name data from an old database to the alumni computer records. In some instances this reunited on mailing labels spouses who divorced or separated long ago, or restored the name of a deceased spouse to our label.

Because Michigan Today is the only mailing that is intended for all U-M alumni and alumnae, the suppliers of the labels believed that the most efficient way to clean or revise the data was through our mailing.

The University can correct the current joint labels only if graduates supply the correct information. Please mail, fax, e-mail or phone in your label corrections, preferably with ID numbers. (If you have a common surname, please include a middle initial or name as well.)

We also ask you to supply the correct new address for any person previously joined with you on the label but who now lives elsewhere. Otherwise, other offices may continue to send mail intended for the former addressee to the wrong address.

Again, please accept our apology for any irritation and inconvenience this mailing process has caused. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Michigan Today mailing address: 412 Maynard, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1399; e-mail address: johnwood@umich.edu fax: (313) 764-7084; Phone: (313) 764-0105.

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A SURVEY of Michigan Today readers on their assessment of our publication and other issues related to its operation will be conducted this spring by the U-M Institute for Social Research.

If you are among the 1,500 readers randomly selected by the researchers, we hope you'll complete and return the form quickly. We are eager to receive your valued opinions, and we also hope to reduce expenditures raised by second mailings of the survey.

We will fully report on the responses to the survey as soon as the research is completed. Thank you for your cooperation.

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