Snail Mail is a stand-alone app that addresses and prints very nice envelopes based on the information in your Address Book (See an earlier Hawk Wings review).

It can print single envelopes or an envelope for every member of an Address Book Group. You also select multiple cards for printing on the fly.

An updated version released today (1.5) is a universal binary.

It also supports the swapping of first and last names, easier removal of a return address and a preference to omit the delivery country if it is the same as the return address country.

Snail Mail is donation-ware and is available from the developer’s web site .

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When last I looked in January, Snail Mail, an app that prints beautiful envelopes from your Address Book contacts, was at version 0.6.7.

Now suddenly it’s at 1.4! In the meantime, it has got smarter about printing Home or Work addresses by default and the current profile correctly remembers the settings you last used each time you open it.

Several printing bugs have been ironed out and other minor improvements implemented.

The finished product looks as good as ever:

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You can’t spend all day in front of your computer. Sometimes you need to go out, but you still need to be able to contact people. Enter Address Book Reports.

This app provides flexible and useful print-outs of the contact information in your Address Book. It offers significant improvements on Address Book’s built-in printing.

Its Card and Phonebook styles are ideal for slipping into a Day planner, Filofax or diary.

Address Book Reports also allows for custom page sizes for the reports, so hipster-wielding retro-tech GTD fans are catered for as well. 3″ x 5″ print outs are just a few clicks away.

The main window allows you to chose which fields to print for each report style and whether to print the lot or just specific groups:

The app can also print envelopes (US and international sizes) and labels (Dymo, Avery, even a POSTNET bar code).

Address Book Reports is shareware (USD 15) and available from the developer’s web site, where you can also check out some sample print-outs.

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Snail Mail is a stand-alone app that addresses and prints envelopes based on the information in your Address Book.

It can print single envelopes or an envelope for every member of an Address Book Group. You also select multiple cards for printing on the fly.

Snail Mail can also print USPS or Australia Post barcodes on its envelopes. Finally, it trumps Address Book in its ability to print address lists.

The envelopes themselves look very good indeed:

You can see why Macworld gave it a four mouse rating.

The app is available from the developer’s web site. Unbelievably, it is free (actually it’s “UNDER”-Ware (”User Now Defines Entity Rights”) but you can read about that in the readme file.)

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