23 August 2021

Mr. Chester L. Harris

1039 West Eighth Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90017

Dear Mr. Harris:

SUBJECT: END OF THE JOB!

With this letter we are sending you the final parts of your thesis: the last two chapters and the long list
of readings. We are also enclosing an invoice for this work, which brings your balance to $45.

We should like you to know that typing this material has been more than "just one more job" to our
group of typists. All of us have found your writing to be extremely interesting, a fact that has not been
true of most of the theses that we've typed in the past.

We are grateful to you for the many kind things you have said about our work. May we quote from one
of your letters when next we compete for a contract? Please give us permission, Mr. Harris; and give us
also a chance to work for and with you once more.

Very sincerely yours,

MEREDITH TYPING SERVICE

Jean I. Meredith

k. Raymundo
Enclosures
Please send the following letter to Mr. Gerald Jordan, Acme Drill Company, 383
Azure Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06107 At the correct point in the letter, center
and type
in all capitals the subject line: Please Settle Your Bill,

Dear Mr. Jordan: We were pleased to extend to you the rare privilege of buying
from us on credit, although it has long been our policy to require the payment of
all invoices
in ten days. As you can see from the date on the duplicate bill that I have
enclosed, more than nine weeks have passed since we delivered to you the
merchandise that you ordered.

In all those many weeks, you have made no payment. We do not like to press the
matter, Mr. Jordan, but we feel it is only fair for us to ask you to settle this bill at
once. The only way by which we can continue to offer the low prices for which we
are well known is to avoid the expenses
of a credit department. Mr. Jordan, we trust that you will repay our courtesy by
sending us your check by return mail

Now, assure Mr. Jordan that we are sincerely his. Put in our company name,
Nelson Hardware Company, above my name and title, Carlton Zoerner, general
sales manager, plus the usual initials and anything else that may need to be
added.
Many years ago, when the Post Office asked that a zone number be shown in
city addresses as a means of spesding up the handling of the mail, there was no
problem about typing the zone number; it was placed after the city, was tollousd
by a comma, and then was followed by the name of the state, But when the Post
Office brought ZIP numberg into being and again asked that a change be made
in the form of addresaing letters and cards, there was quite a problem: The
scanning machines could do their jobs only if the ZIP number was get off from
the rest of the address. So writerg were asked to
shift the zone guide from after the city to after the state and to leave some space
between the state and the ZIP Code, How much space? Pressed on this item,
the Post Office just said the space ought not to be less than two spaces or more
than six spaces on a pica typewriter. Translated into elite spacing, that would be
not less than three spaces and not more than seven spaces. Wanting to come up
with a firm and single recommendation that would fit all machines best, the
authors of this book selected three spaces as the right number on which to
standardize, which explains why you will frequently be reminded to space three
times before you type a ZIP number.

You are told to do this both on the envelope and in the inside address so that you
will get the habit of
always ending any address with three spaces and a ZIP Code.
At first glance, some of the printed forme used in the office might seem to be
complex; but only a moment of study 1s required to understand how to use most
of them, for most forms are simply letters. Take a b1ll or a check or a memo or a
telegram, for instance; eaoh 1s just a letter with the greeting and closing left out.
Once you realize this fact, orms begin to make sense. You can also see from this
faot how much time forme save; if you had to type a whole letter instead of fill in
a form each time you prepared a telegram or bill or cheok, you would not get a
quarter as muoh done. One more aid that pays ite way by saving time and that is
part of the equipment to be found in all deske 1s oarbon paper.

If one knew of carbon sheets, so that the typiat had to write one at a time all his
extra copies of business papere, and then someone came up with carbon paper
as a new thing, you sure would judge 1t to be the finest gift of all time. Far from
(linching from the use of carbona, a typiat ought to bless the lovely stuff and learn
all the trioks of using it. Yet few typists know much about the many colore, sizes,
and weights in which this magic aid may be obtained.