How does a Canadian send a SASE (self addresses stamped envelope)?

I love reading the classifieds sections in American magazines and it always asks for a SASE.

Also to order some quilt kits from American Magazine articles require a SASE as well.

Canada post does not have a SASE option.

Advice or suggestions please,

Thanks!

I guess what you could do is ask how much it would cost to send a certain size envelope or whatever to Canada from the states.
Say it costs $1 US to send to Canada for a manila envelope with a pattern in it. Then you could recalculate that to Canadian money and go that way. That's the only thing I could think of, UNLESS...you can contact the company and ask them what the cost would be.....

I would just try to find an american friend who would be willing to send you some US stamps. Then you just put your own adress on the envelope, put a US stamp on it and put it in the envelope you are mailing it to. You may even be able to purchase some of the US stamps at WWW.USPS.COM. Hope this helps.

Find a friend in the US and ask them to buy you some US stamps to send to you (financial arrangements are up to you and the friend). Then you can enclose a SASE with US postage on it when you answer the ads.

When a SASE is requested, you place an empty unsealed envelope (E - Envelope), addressed to yourself (SA - Self Addressed), with enough postage applied (S- Stamped) to it to reach it's way back to you and put this in the envelope sent along with your letter/request. The postage can be regular stamps applied to the envelope. It just has to be enough postage to reach back to you.

Hi Aully, I just contact the company or the person who posted and ask if they are willing to ship to Canada. If they are, they get either an estimate or the exact amount it will cost for shipping and let me know the amount, which I include in my payment. When I buy things that are 'shipping included' on the board, the seller charges me the additional amount it costs to ship to Canada over and above what they allocated for shipping in the US. Same thing with swaps. I contact the coordinator and either send postage under separate cover or include the cost of postage with my swap package. If you don't already have one, it's a good plan to open a PayPal account, because you can send money to anyone with an e-mail address whether they have PayPal or not. I send postage as a 'gift'now, which is easier and cheaper than any other way I've found. Any questions, don't hesitate to PM me.
Good luck and Happy Quilting!

I do have a Paypal account, I use it lots. lol! I do have USA stamps. The adds I read only have an address for them no other information. Can I just include the smae sized envelope with a stamp on it? Would I just put on a Canadian stamp?

I just found out we (Canadians) can open up a US bank account here and then send a cheque or money order from the bank. The money order can also be traced. This is a saving as I have been paying $5.50 to get a $10.00 money order at the post office. Hope this info helps

I am confused, we use stamps for our SASE. You can't use any kind of metered mail because it has a date on it, and if the dates don't match up to the date being sent it sends up a red flag and the post office won't send it. So, I just assume you address your envelope and put USA stamps on it, but I could be waaaay off base.

You can't use Canadian stamps to mail from the US or US stamps to mail from Canada. If you have US postage you will still need to know how much extra it costs them to mail to Canada so you can put enough postage on the envelope you send, or you can expect to pay a charge for insufficient postage when and if it gets to you. I'd be seriously suspicious of ads with no additional information that you can cross-reference.

Hi Sadiemae,
You can't buy another countries postage in your own country, and it usually costs more to mail to another country. I could probably pay a board member to buy me some US stamps and mail them to me, but I would still have to know how much extra it would cost the person to mail it to me in Canada compared to how much it would be to mail to someone in the USA. For example it costs about 54 cents to mail a regular letter in Canada, but about $1.05 for me to mail a regular letter from Canada to a friend in the US.
Clear as mud? I've been getting quite an education in postage since I joined the board and (good news/bad news) discovered the swaps and the classified section! LOL

Hi Quiltqueen,
How do you go about doing that? I'd be interested. Money orders are horribly expensive here, aren't they. PayPal has been a lot cheaper, but the bank account sounds interesting too.
Thanks!

You just go to the bank and ask to open a US account you pay the exchange if you are using Canadian dollars. You can use this account for cheques or money orders to US . The only thing is do US banks charge a fee to cash these? I'm going to try and find out today. In Canada if you are a senior there is no charge for this.So we all need to find trusty senior friends!

you can't put a Canadian stamp on it.... its weird if you send a self addressed envelope to a company in canada they can use a US stamps (they don't have a set international rate) to get it back but you can't do the same for a us company with a US stamp.... I looked into it for wedding invitations last November.

You should not put Canadian stamps on mail that will originate from another country. Most swap hostesses or sellers will buy the postage if you send them the money for it. Always check before purchasing or joining.