One letter each, in one file

Four personal letters behind a contents sheet. No letter names a page number: each recipient takes the sheets that follow, as many as are needed, and every line of the contents leads to the recipient.

A mailing goes out: four letters, four different customers, one file. The company that folds them and puts them into envelopes has to know where each letter starts and how many sheets it runs to. That normally comes on a work sheet beside the file, and the day the two stop agreeing, somebody receives a letter written for somebody else.

Here the file says it itself. No letter carries a page number, and none had to: each recipient simply takes the sheets that follow, as many as are needed — the first takes two, an extra sheet going with it, the other three take one apiece. Every line of the contents sheet at the front leads to the recipient rather than to a sheet, so a letter that gains a page leaves everything above it alone and the contents stay right. The company that fills the envelopes reads the same file to know where to cut and what to fold.

What this example shows

• Four letters, one for each customer, behind one contents sheet.
• No page numbers: each recipient takes the sheets that follow.
• A line of the contents leads to the recipient, not to a sheet.

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