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Published on: 12/13/2009
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Last year, when TidBITS Managing Editor Jeff Carlson started in on his Christmas cards, he ran into problems, because Apple's Address Book, while it may do fine at storing data and displaying it on the Mac and iPhone, is seriously wanting when it comes to printing mailing labels.
The problem is simple - while Address Book really wants you to create one entry per person, mailings like Christmas cards often need to be sent to couples or to entire families, and Address Book has no facility for merging spouses into a single label, or creating a family label.
The solution Jeff found was BeLight Software's Labels & Addresses [1], previously known as Mail Factory (see "Labels & Addresses Restores Holiday Card Sanity [2]," 12 December 2008).