Tips on Mailing Handmade Cards: Postage and Protection

You’ve made a beautiful handmade card and are ready to put it in the mail. Before you do, watch my video with tips on mailing handmade cards. You may learn a tip to help save on postage and to ensure it gets where it’s going on time.

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If you’ve experienced it, you know how disheartening it is to find a card you mailed, usually weeks later, returned to your mailbox. Much more than the expense and effort of sending it again, it’s upsetting that who it was meant for didn’t know you thought of them.

Please keep in mind now that you’ve watched my tips on mailing handmade cards video, what is perfectly acceptable for virtually every post office doesn’t mean you will be free of issues at another. Due to my husband’s work, I’ve mailed handmade greeting cards from coast to coast and haven’t the same experiences as some of my stampers.

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Suzi Yerkes on February 28, 2019 at 10:12 pm

Thank you for the information on mailing cards and postage involved. I have one other thought. If you fold the card inside out you would not have to add additional paper. It might also allow a few more cards to slip through the opening in the ruler without getting hung up.

Shelly Godby on March 3, 2019 at 10:13 pm
You’re welcome. Sounds like turning your card inside out works well for you.
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Michelle Eaton on February 28, 2019 at 11:37 pm

Thank you soooo much for the tip, “How to mail our cards”
I am Grateful to you because I had sent a card and my client called me
and asked if I had sent her something as she only rec’d the envelope !!!!
I didn’t know how you could tell if the card would go through…