I recently had an envelope returned, and when I went to the post office to redo it, I sort of whined about the lost postage. The clerk told me to just mark through the rubber stamp message to show it had been noted, and add the additional postage only. I was pleased to save my original postage. The reason for return was that I had used an older greeting card envelope, and it was oversize for today's limits. I am one of those people who saves everything, thinking I'm actually saving trees when I use an envelope until it's tissue thin. So I have tons of old stuff that might have become a problem while I wasn't looking. Now, don't start laughing behind my back about those tacky envelopes you got your seed in. I was being thrifty.
New postal regs & pkg. returns
That's okay as I saved the colored envelopes from Hallmark cards. I work in a store in 1984 where we sent the cards back but not the envelopes.
I thought that was such a waste that I saved a ton of them and still use them to this day.
I still have a large box with many shades of color, These have been use in art projects,sending out letters, and so on.
I am not sure if they still do this,but i would love to get another box full for the next twenty years.
How amusing, Mike. I, too, have a lot of different sizes and colors from about 12 years ago when my son worked at a pharmacy and they were discarding the envelopes of cards they sent back. That was probably where I got the trouble making card envelope mentioned above. BTW, while I was at the po today, I finally got a template for determining acceptable sizes of envelopes. Stores throw a lot of good stuff in the trash. Many years ago I was friends with a manager of JC Penney in a small town, and he would save me discontinued patterns for the same reason. I have a huge trunk of those patterns from sewing for my girls, and the only thing wrong was the missing envelope which had been returned for credit.
As long as we are on the subject of saving trees and such. I took a coin envelope as a template to make my own coin envelopes out of paper grocery bags as long as their wasn't food or anything like that on it.:)
Way to go ! I am a compulsive saver and recycler, and I save anything I possibly can. Our recycling program which is run by the city is very limited, but if individuals would try just a little, we could reduce the waste, benefit the environment and save ourselves a lot of money. Consumerism doesn't have to be a bad thing. I vividly recall the junk collectors and what we called the rag man who were a common sight during WWII, and my mother had numerous pots and pans with actual patches in holes. Sentiment inspired me to preserve one of those old pots, and numerous people of today don't have the vaguest notion what it means when they see the patches. It means using things until they are truly used up. It's so good to find someone else who isn't afraid to be uncool, who looks for a way to make something from materials on hand instead of discarding. This site seems to have many such people.
HEHE ... I must be WAY UNCOOL !
I reuse everything.Try this,those brown bags...shred them and use that instead of bubble wrap.Hate to think of that plasic in the landfills.Some chipmunk would choke and it would be because of me !
It works find.I've had no complaints.
I even fold those brown bags and tape together my own mailers.
Smiles!