Absoltrainer
Active Member
If sending cards via mail, can more then 2 cards be saftey put in a toploader plus sleeves? I have 3 cards to send, and I was wondering if I could use 1 toploader.
Thanks for any advice.
Thanks for any advice.
If you're sending cards off to an eBay or T&T, play it safe. Put each card in a top loader. Top loaders cost like 13 cents each. Does 39 cents really break the bank?
Put the cards in a sleeve and in front of the toploader. Wrap the bundle in paper and tape it shut. You can do this for 10+ cards and never have to waste more than 1 toploader, and your cards will always be safe.
That kind of thinking can get you in financial trouble. When you deal in big volumes, little costs like that start to add up. I normally pay like $0.35 per bubblemailer envelope, but bought a huge box in bulk which ends up costing me something like $0.15 per bubblemailer. Doesn't seem like much, but when you're talking about 200 envelopes, it's $40. That's 2 weeks worth of of gas right there (for me anyway).
Toploaders aren't the end all be all to safety either, so you can easily get in trouble in trying to be over-protective. I've had both extremes happen - cards sent in toploaders arrive damaged thanks to USPS, and cardssent in regular white envelopes with no toploaders or even sleeves arrive perfect. The only real way to protect your cards from ANY problem during shipping, you need to ship it in a padded envelope, with the card in a toploader + an extra toploader glued to each side, and then you need to use packing tape to seal all possible rip-prone areas, then to be sure USPS doesn't screw up, you should put both insurance (against damage or loss) and signature confirmation (to make sure they don't deliver to the wrong person/house).
See what I'm saying? You can go crazy trying to be super-safe so you have to decide on a zone you're comfortable with that also won't put you out of business. One toploader in a simple CD-size bubblemailer with DC will keep away 99.9% of your troubles.