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Hi. Welcome to Stamping With Gail! In this video I'm going to answer the
question,
How much does it cost
to mail a hand-stamped card?
Well, if your card is flat,
and it doesn't have much in the way of embellishments,
and it weighs less than ounce, and you put it in a standard envelope, it's going to
cost one ounce
postage: your
"Forever" stamp,
which is forty six cents.
If it has some embellishments on it
like these,
or
(and/or),
if you use a clear envelope to mail it,
you'll have to pay the additional twenty cents,
which is considered the nonmachinable rate that means it's not supposed to
go through a machine.
If your card is very heavy, you're going to pay an additional twenty cents as
well,
and if your card is over an ounce and it has embellishments you probably have
to pay another forty cents on top of your forty six cent stamp.
Now, as much as I like
mailing cards in clear envelopes, it has got to to be a problem lately and
even if,
well i just mailed this card actually
and I put sixty six cents on it
and it has a little bit of embellishments on it, but it still bends and
it still complies with all the rules and it's in a clear envelope,
and I put sixty six cent and it came back.
I took it to the post office and the guy at the post office had no idea why it was
sent back but,
to avoid that I'm probably going to lean towards
just standard envelopes from now on.
But you can try it. Some people mail them for forty six cents without a problem.
The last thing that I do is once I have a card ready to mail,
and I put it into the envelope, and
seal the envelope,
then I'll feel the surface of the card for bumps and there's one here where
there's a ribbon,
so I'll take a piece of packing tape,
just your standard packing tape,
and cover
the back. Some people,
it kinda looks like I'm sealing the flap.
It doesn't matter. What it's going to do is protect this surface when he goes
through the machinery because even though it's considered not machinable,
they're going to put it through the machine anyway.
And even if you have a little brad, just a tiny little brad, it can poke through
the envelope.
So, in this case even though it does have a little bump,
i would probably mail this with just the forty six cent
stamp because it meets all the other requirements and it in a
regular envelope so
i would just
going ahead and try that.
By the way if you have a card that's really fancy maybe not this one but one
that's got a lot of embellishments and maybe fragile
I would definitely use a padded envelope for that and then you may have
to check the post office or
check on the
post office website
to find out how much postage your going to need on that but
if you really put a lot of work into it
then you don't want to
cram it into a machine when you mail it.
The important thing, the most important thing here,
is when you make your cards,
send them!
People love these! These cards can really make somebody's day.
So be sure that you do mail them and don't hoard them for yourself.
Thank you for spending time with me today and be sure to check out my website:
www.stampingwithgail.com.