Quilting Bee: One Block/Month Swap (Please see message from MadeinMaine on page 201)
#2421
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Michigan
Posts: 2,146
Originally Posted by ladygen
It's okay star, just glad you (finally) got it! Sorry I was so slow, there was a lot going on (started a diary page here as I didn't want to put my problems all over the place). Anyway, glad you like it!
#2422
Just a quickie reminder, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE be aware that if you send your blocks in anything but a card envelope or business envelope, your recipient will be charged extra postage. When in doubt, ADD ANOTHER STAMP to be "safe."
Thank you!
Thank you!
#2424
Also, Everyone remember to put your blocks in a baggie or plastic wrap! It has been Raining all over the country. My mail yesterday was soaked! Thank God I didnt have any blocks in the box yesterday!
#2425
I have to ditto dettonlizas remarks. The baggies/plastic wrap saves the blocks from not only weather conditions but the US Postal Service as well, ie; totally shredded envelope received with plastic wrapped block wonderfully intact.
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Gigix12
#2426
And be sure to put your address in with the block as well, one lady in one of my swaps got her package shredded through the postal service and so far has received packages from 3 different states. I tape all the seams on my envelopes in hopes they will arrive safely.
#2427
Originally Posted by sdparent
And be sure to put your address in with the block as well, one lady in one of my swaps got her package shredded through the postal service and so far has received packages from 3 different states. I tape all the seams on my envelopes in hopes they will arrive safely.
I do this so often that I actually had a non machinable stamp made from vista print =)
#2428
Originally Posted by kysmommy2
Originally Posted by sdparent
And be sure to put your address in with the block as well, one lady in one of my swaps got her package shredded through the postal service and so far has received packages from 3 different states. I tape all the seams on my envelopes in hopes they will arrive safely.
I do this so often that I actually had a non machinable stamp made from vista print =)
#2429
YOU'RE WELCOME!! and if you are sending 2 blocks....it's normally 61 cents and if you add the 20 cents for Non-Machinable it is 81 cents ;) I've tried to get this down to an art.
ALSO....if you write "non-machineable" in the lower left corner and add 20 cents to your regular postage, they will not put it through any equipment. For a 12" block folded evenly across a #10 envelope it is 64 cents to mail it non machinable.
I do this so often that I actually had a non machinable stamp made from vista print =)
Thanks for the info. I had no idea about the 'non-machineable' bit.
Originally Posted by Quilt Mom
Originally Posted by kysmommy2
Originally Posted by sdparent
And be sure to put your address in with the block as well, one lady in one of my swaps got her package shredded through the postal service and so far has received packages from 3 different states. I tape all the seams on my envelopes in hopes they will arrive safely.
I do this so often that I actually had a non machinable stamp made from vista print =)
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