theflyinggerco
OzCardTrader
The Strength of White Envelopes.
What are the strengths of the white envelope?
At 100 for 3 dollars, they are almost 1/10 the comparble price for 100 bubble mailers, and around 60 cents cheaper when individually bought. White envelopes usually only require a 50c stamp to be posted, leaving the poster a bill of 60c for postage materials. This is very cheap, even cheaper than a bubble mailer, which requires a $1 stamp, and has a total price of which ranges from $1.34 to $1.85, or ranging from double to triple the price of a white envelope/stamp combo.
However, the weakness of a white envelope is quite ironically, the strength of a white envelope. Made simply out of paper, it is easily torn, water damaged, easily opened by a unauthorised individual, and can be completely destroyed or, in the words of Australia Post, "damaged/delayed as a result of malfunction by our machinery". Admittedly these all things that can happen to bubble mailers, but in my experience, the damage to bubble mailers in much less, again IMO.
This below is the remains of a white envelope used by a eBay seller (pls dont ask me his name, i will edit it in if my disscussions with him are fruitless) to send me a card:
This may well of occured if a bubble mailer had been used, who knows?
But IMO, using a bubble mailer, with top loaders on most, if not all cards, and around the un-top loaded cards (is that right lol), and securly wrapped would be the preferred postage method, not by a few but by every last one of the Ozcards family, again IMO.
But in closing, I would have to say that i am the luckiest man in the world (regardless of the worth of the card, which is minimal) that the card managed to get to me unharmed, while being put in a white envelope and a penny sleeve, without a top loader.
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What are the strengths of the white envelope?
At 100 for 3 dollars, they are almost 1/10 the comparble price for 100 bubble mailers, and around 60 cents cheaper when individually bought. White envelopes usually only require a 50c stamp to be posted, leaving the poster a bill of 60c for postage materials. This is very cheap, even cheaper than a bubble mailer, which requires a $1 stamp, and has a total price of which ranges from $1.34 to $1.85, or ranging from double to triple the price of a white envelope/stamp combo.
However, the weakness of a white envelope is quite ironically, the strength of a white envelope. Made simply out of paper, it is easily torn, water damaged, easily opened by a unauthorised individual, and can be completely destroyed or, in the words of Australia Post, "damaged/delayed as a result of malfunction by our machinery". Admittedly these all things that can happen to bubble mailers, but in my experience, the damage to bubble mailers in much less, again IMO.
This below is the remains of a white envelope used by a eBay seller (pls dont ask me his name, i will edit it in if my disscussions with him are fruitless) to send me a card:
This may well of occured if a bubble mailer had been used, who knows?
But IMO, using a bubble mailer, with top loaders on most, if not all cards, and around the un-top loaded cards (is that right lol), and securly wrapped would be the preferred postage method, not by a few but by every last one of the Ozcards family, again IMO.
But in closing, I would have to say that i am the luckiest man in the world (regardless of the worth of the card, which is minimal) that the card managed to get to me unharmed, while being put in a white envelope and a penny sleeve, without a top loader.
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