Editing Return address (section)

==History==
The return address has been used on US postage since the 1880s. As pressure printing became more commonplace during the early 1900s, labels became cheaper and more easily distributed. The profession involved with producing these labels was known as [[lithography]].

During the 1950s in the United States, more and more mail was not arriving at intended recipients, and as a result of the lack of a return address, said mail ended up in the [[dead letter office]]. With this rise in dead mail, the post office pleaded for people to use a return address. Even after this, the public still tended to neglect to add a return address. This prompted the [[postmaster]] to inform the public that mail without a return address would be less of a priority than mail with a return address.

Still, the public did not widely use a return address until the 1960s when companies began to offer deals for preprinted return labels such as 2,500 labels for $2.00. They became more popular with the invention of label dispensers. With the invention of the [[personal computer]], software enabled people to print their own labels. As [[email]] began to overtake written mail, the return address became automatic in an e-mail.<ref>{{cite web|title=The History of Return Address Labels!|url=http://www.returnaddress.biz/the-history-of-return-address-label/|work=Web page|accessdate=2013-08-23|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921064118/http://www.returnaddress.biz/the-history-of-return-address-label/|archivedate=2013-09-21}}</ref>