jaciqltznok

I know...this is my last time to do a swap of blocks that is NOT centralized...it is just too dang expensive now!

debs

Thank you, my postmistress must have put one letter I sent with 3 fat qrts, a note & a foam sticky thru at least ten times, couldn't decide if the 2 inch X 1 inch foam sticky would prevent it from passing.
So hopefully they all went the entire trip!

This will definitely help me with things I send. Thanks

heyjami

I love my postage scale too - but it doesn't help you with the thickness rule! I found that out the hard way and decided to do something about it for my quilting friends.

I recently made some quilted postcards for a swap and didn't have this and I literally crossed my fingers as I tossed them into the mail bin. After that, I created this tool for myself.

heyjami

It's the individual swaps that made me really find a way to get my block to my partner for 44 cents. :-)

That's how I learned to copy others and use the flat fold, saran wrap cover, and place it in a Costco card envelope (those huge max size heavy duty envelopes). Once in awhile my block is heavier than normal and I have to pay 64 cents. But most of them go for 44 cents.

88-108 cents round trip for F8 and block makes a 36 block exchange run around $32-36. Not too bad for 36 gorgeous blocks and the fun and excitement of so much quilting mail! ;-)

I'll definitely keep doing them. Love them!

heyjami

I've been to 4 of my local post offices. I've asked them all about that cardboard slot and they told me they didn't know where to get one.

I've had them send back packages asking for additional postage but when I take them into the office I ask them why and they can't tell me why and they accept it with the original postage.

I'm very frustrated with my post offices. It seems like they don't even know their own rules.

heyjami

Maybe too many good USPS employees retired (and became quilters!) ;-)

hmross

You may be right. My post office don't seem to know the rules either when I asked about the little cardboard thing they said oh this and I said yeah and they told me maybe I could get them off the internet. They didn't have any. When you go to usps website they are not there. All the good workers who know must have retired or are somewhere else cause they sure aren't in my town

snoopyfreak

now that's a wonderful idea! :)

patimint

Thanks, very useful.

audsgirl

Great idea! This should save a lot of frustration at the post office.