How to mail/ship cards?

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kfitch06

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I put mine in toploaders so as to avoid damage, but how do you mail them? Do you have to take them to UPS/Fed-ex, or can you wrap the toploader and send it in an envelope?
 
Any card worth more than $7-8 goes in a sleeve and then in a toploader (sometimes a few cards in one) and any other cards I just put in sleeves.

If you just put it in an envelope, with the correct adress and stampage, then it should send successfully.
 
I ship all my cards in slickies and toploaders. The toploader is taped shut and taped to a trade receipt.
 
As far as the actually mailing portion of it goes, I would suggest taking it to your local post office if you don't know the weights/postage for your shipment. Shipping with USPS is cheaper by far than UPS or Fed/EX, unless you're doing things like tracking, insurance, etc. which UPS and Fed/EX both automatically include in the price of their shipping (up to a point). You can also just put a number of stamps on the envelope to cover the total postage, but beware if you don't know your weights; if a package is shipped with incorrect postage it'll just end up back at your door in a couple days and you'll have to get a new envelope and send it back out all over again.
 
I'd ship in a small bubble envelope. I get 10-packs from my CVS Pharmacy for about $2.50 each, and I've never had anybody who I've sent cards in the envelopes to say anything bad about the envelope.
 
I ship all my cards in sleeves and toploaders, inside an envelope. Ialso have bubble envelope, and big ones in case I'm trading lots of cards at once.
 
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Can you mail a bubble envelope from your house, though? I want to avoid the hassle of going to UPS, Fed-ex or the post office.
 
kfitch06 said:
Can you mail a bubble envelope from your house, though? I want to avoid the hassle of going to UPS, Fed-ex or the post office.
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Yes, you can ship with stamps or you can go to https://sss-web.usps.com/cns/landing.do
 
omahanime said:
Yes, you can ship with stamps or you can go to https://sss-web.usps.com/cns/landing.do
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You need a credit card for that...I use this program they publish: https://www.usps.com/business/shipping-assistant.htm . It prints labels without postage (unless you want to buy postage), and you can either take it to the post office and get meter postage or put stamps on it (there's a big box that says US POSTAGE REQUIRED) in the corner. The main advantage of doing it this way is that delivery confirmation is MUCH cheaper ($0.19 compared to $0.80 at retail), but you can still pay with cash.
 
Toploaders and cheap plastic things all the way, no matter what the card is. Then a carboard backed envelope that says DO NOT BEND on it. I'll be very annoyed if my cards ever reach anyone in less than mint condition... xD
 
I sleeve them and then stick em in a toploader. The toploader is then taped shut and stuck in a bubble envelope, whose seal is then reinforced with a strip of packing tape. I usually cover the to and from labels with a bit of packing tape as well, to make sure they don't become smudged or illegible.
 
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