Buy postage stamps in booklets of 20 for maximum control of expenses.
When you see ads in several magazines for the same sweepstake with a prize that you covet, send mail-in entries to every location. This will get your entries into different mail sacks for the drawing.
Keying or Coding has been practiced since the beginning of mail-in entries for sweepstakes by both, advertisers and contestants. The advertisers usually give their dept different letters like dept A or dept B. This gives them a chance to figure out how many replies are obtained from each newspaper or magazine ad.
Contestants key their entries so they will know in the end what contest won the prize when they enter the same contest multiple times. Keying consists in writing your name in a different way each time you enter. Here are six different ways to write my name. Try it with yours. Monika Gordon, M Gordon, Monika Borer Gordon, Monika B Gordon, M Borer Gordon, MB Gordon.
When the contestant sends differently written contests to the same sponsor, keying helps to discover which slant is preferred by judges or sponsors, so that in future contests, the experienced contestant is able to write to please those who award the prizes which saves time, money, labor and multiple submissions.
Keying can also mean Typing.
ENTER TO WIN THE CONTEST AGAIN, OR FIND ANOTHER TO ENTER. (Helen Hadsell)
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