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WIYM: The Price of Happy Mail (USA)

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Group:What's in your mailbox?
Swap Coordinator:ArtyBeth3 (contact)
Swap categories: Letters & Writing 
Number of people in swap:12
Location:Regional - USA
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:May 29, 2013
Date items must be sent by:June 19, 2013
Number of swap partners:4
Description:

Do you realize that it’s possible to send 4 envelopes of "happy mail" to 4 swap partners for about one-half the cost of a latte drink at your local coffee shop? At 46 cents per envelope, we can easily brighten the days of 4 people with a cheerful note and a lightweight flat surprise too (a recipe, a bookmark, a note card, a postcard, stickers, washi tape samples, etc.).

And, for no additional money, we can decorate our envelopes to make them special (we can make them out of decorative paper, or draw/paint/color/doodle on a plain one, or add some rubber stamped images, or use fancy colorful lettering, or cover with washi tape, or, or, or…).

If this sounds like fun to you, come on out & play. While this swap is sender's choice, I do encourage everyone to look at their partners' profiles for ideas on what kinds of surprises to include that might make their partners smile.

Fine details:

  • 4 partners
  • One letter or note card written to each partner with more than just a sentence or two (please tell a little bit about you and what kinds of swaps you like to join and/or what your hobbies are). If you're crafty, feel free to make your own cards & envelopes; otherwise, store-bought is fine.
  • Add a lightweight flat surprise
  • Decorate your envelopes!
  • Have fun sending & receiving happy mail :-)
  • Minimum rating: 5 recently completed Type 2 or 3 swaps; at least 5 ratings of 5; and no 1s or 3s in the last 3 months.

Discussion

Lila84 05/25/2013 #

Since this is a letter (46 cents), then isn't it a Type 2: Flat Mail swap? I just want to make sure we're not supposed to send a package or not.

ArtyBeth3 05/26/2013 #

Good question, @Lila84 To clarify, even though I have this listed as a Type 3 swap, it is not a package swap. The description of a Type 2 swap says "no craft component." When I host swaps that give the option of say, hand making envelopes, and decorating your envelope, to me I consider that being creative and therefore, being crafty and thus I feel it more aligns with a Type 3 swap, even though we are not sending packages.

I hope this helps.

ArtyBeth3 05/26/2013 #

Oops. Edited text to make it 4 partners :) Thanks @Lou

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