thanks!

[quote="lithium"]
Anyone know how heavy an 8x10 envelope with a 8x10 picture weighs by any chance? Think it would be under 40 grams? I'm not good at estimating weights

Thanks![/quote]
It is about one ounce-which is the 0.86 one. You could put 1.00 worth of stamps just to be on the safe side.

As for postage going up... I certainly hope NOT!

BossC

can anyone please help?

and are the us postage rates going up next year?
i've tried looking at the usps site and its a navigation nightmare...you cant find any info at all...

[quote="jdp3577"]heres the chart

To mail FROM the USA TO Canada:
A First-Class Mail® International - Large Envelope

$0.86 10g (.35 oz)
$0.86 20g (.70 oz)
$1.00 40g (1.40 oz)
$1.31 60g (2.10 oz)
$1.31 80g (2.80 oz)
$1.62 100g (3.50 oz)[/quote]


Anyone know how heavy an 8x10 envelope with a 8x10 picture weighs by any chance? Think it would be under 40 grams? I'm not good at estimating weights

Thanks!

well what i usualy do is i send a standard enevelope it usualy works as both my enevelope which i use to write and as my sase the only time i dont as if their is need of a big enevelope like when i dont send a pic or when the person usualy uses bigger enevelopes like with one tree hill i got a postcard that says thanks for writing if youd like a autograph send a biger sase or something like that. and i also live in canada im sorry if this doesent make that much sense im waching the football game and typing at the same time.

what i mean is if you send a standard envelope as both it wont cost you much just one stamp on each if you send two big enevelopes one for the them to recieve and one for you to recive thats anywere from 2-3 stamps per enevelope make sense i also live in canada and this sending period (which im finnaly getting into after a month and a half) is the first time i am sending a biger envelope as a sase

Yeah it's best if you send a SAE or SASE. If they use their own envelope and send it back, they probably know you're trying or something. (lol whatever that means)

heres the chart

To mail FROM the USA TO Canada:
A First-Class Mail® International - Large Envelope

$0.86 10g (.35 oz)
$0.86 20g (.70 oz)
$1.00 40g (1.40 oz)
$1.31 60g (2.10 oz)
$1.31 80g (2.80 oz)
$1.62 100g (3.50 oz)

it takes $1 to ship a photo in a large envelope from US to Canada, It may be more if you add cardboard

SASE I guess lol

how much does it cost to send an envelope to Canada from the States?

I'll just buy a roll of those stamps when I go south

Hi guys {up}

Using an SASE does have an amazing positive effect on the success rate :D

I know people post all kinds of experiences with including / not including return postage, but for the sake of repeating myself (again :lol: ) I have a little story to illustrate this . . . .

A couple of years ago I carried out an experiment where I sent out 50 requests with no paid reply envelope, and I got back next-to-nothing, about 5 or 6 from memory. I then mailed out to the same 50 celebs some 6 months later, and got back 40+ of my requests.

[u]Sending an SASE makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE :lol: [/u]

What I would suggest is that if the postage costs are a bit too high for you, then try to be a little more selective as to who you request from. It is better to send out 5 requests with the return postage paid, to people who you really, really want to receive a success from - than send out double that number without enclosing the postage. Not to enclose it is a real false-economy ;-)

I know there will be some who disagree with me, but after gaining near to 1,000 successes - I think I have tested my theory now :D However, whatever you decide - best of luck {up}

Cheers,
Ian :mrgreen: