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Why has no one before our underoccupied adman pal Copyranter brought this to our attention: The Envelope Manufacturers Association is meeting in New York?!

Hold all our calls, honey, because we don't think we can miss the panels 'Ranter assumes are part of the conference:

• Pre-gummed flaps: innovation or folly?
• The Psychological Pain of the Paper Cut
• FREE weigh station Wednesday!
• 3 or 4 lines for the return address? A lively discussion.

Though we dear: Have the free envelope samples been destroyed by the downpour through which they were delivered? We eagerly await the Times's team coverage of that catastrophe tomorrow.

This Had to Just Plain Lick [Copyranter]