Everyone loves receiving letters in the mail, and the best way to get letters is to send letters. I try to make it point to send several letters to my close friends and family throughout the year (not to mention a plethora of postcards, but that's another instructable); it helps me stay in touch, is more personal and appreciated than Facebook or a quick email, and helps keep the USPS in business! Y( ^ o ^ )Y
But envelopes can get expensive, and I often don't have them on hand, or don't have the correct size. This instructable will show you how to fold your letter into its own envelope, saving you ( tens of ? ) dollars and maybe some time.
But envelopes can get expensive, and I often don't have them on hand, or don't have the correct size. This instructable will show you how to fold your letter into its own envelope, saving you ( tens of ? ) dollars and maybe some time.
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You'll need a letter. This folding works best for letters written on 8.5' x 11' or A4 paper, or similar. Letters written on substantially larger or smaller sheets of paper will likely have trouble conforming to U.S. Postal Service letter size requirements.
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Anyway, good job! :)
Instead of putting the to address where it normally goes and the from address where it goes, swap them.
The to address is the return address and the return address is the to address, then don't put a stamp on the envelope. Drop it in a postbox, let processing do its thing, nine times out of ten it will be "returned to sender" once in a while there will be someone nice enough in the USPS to put a stamp on it, in which case the plan is foiled. Just speaking from personal experience :)
I just want to say that there are many schemes to defraud the Postal Service of revenue, and that to do so is just low-brow and petty.
Come on, folks, your integrity sold for the price of a 44 cent stamp?
I have no idea if this qualifies as mail fraud, but I urge people to NOT try it, as the hardworking people at the post office (many of them Vets, just saying) deserve at least 50 cents for their trouble.
I used to be a carrier for the USPS. I'd be that one out of ten that caused those kind of letters to not go through. This is one of the many kinds of schemes I'd seen to bilk us out of .33 cents.
Kind of like having a letter addressed to an address only to have it returned to prove the person was somewhere else at the time while another crime was supposedly being committed by someone else.
I have dealt with other country's postal services and KNOW our USPS is the best - as far as service goes - in the world. Though I think they could tighten their belts instead of whining about not having enough money - surely ebay and other online services have amazingly multiplied the business they do - but we do not hear about this. We only hear about how email has hurt the sending of letters. So, no, I have no love for the government's system of running the USPS - as always, anything government touches is bankrupt.
However, at the same time, I am glad I can almost guarantee when I mail something it will get to its destination. I believe if the P.O. was in private hands - it would be even better. in fact when USP was became large enough they did just as good a job for a lot less in fees - until the government decided to put regulation on UPS so as to jack their prices up to be comparable with the USPS.
But I digress - the facts are that honesty and integrity built out country and until we stopped making it part of our kids education, we were a great nation. Now we are in debt up to our ears and greed is king.
My reply was to MillenniumMan's initial comment suggesting the address swap trick; not to the instructable of "folding paper to create an envelope."
Of course, not MillenniumMan is back-pedaling and you are accusing the president of doing dishonest deeds -- a statement that you cannot, in fact, back up with any facts.
Actually, there are many, many facts to back up his dishonesty. But I will not make a major discusinstructiblesion of that here. If you want just one of many (and it took no effort to come up with this one off the top of my head), the other day he said America has just 2% of the world's proven oil reserves whereas the Congressional Research Service had released a report that said the US has at least 17%. Why? Obama has made no deal to try to hide he wants gasoline at incredibly high prices so as to push so-called green technologies (research and see why I say "so called").
Remember the openess policy he said and then tried as fast as he could to ram Obamacare through without it even being read?
Oops - sorry - I started doing what i said i would not. instead, of going further, just make sure you are getting your news from both sides of the fence so the truth can be determined. Take a look at youtube and try to refute some of the videos showing him outright lying - using clips from his own speeches.
As for the Oil Reserve thing, I feel that was for the best to help get our asses in gear regarding alternative fuel solutions. Our entire existence relies on oil and petroleum, and those resources are rapidly being diminished at an alarming rate. (By the way, how many people ride in your car when you drive to work?)
The presidency is not as simple as waiving your hand and having a solution magically appear -- especially when there are so many other greedy agendas blocking your good intentions.
I still have faith in Obama.
1) Find someone that has something you want
2) Take that thing
3) Dance a jig, you got what you want--for free! :)
Even the not-so-bright and slow South African postal service might briefly think about it and see the highly non-unfishiness of it.
Oh, also, I've received a wedding invitation with a stamp that displayed the couple's engagement photo; plus, a birth announcement with the baby's Day 1 pic on the stamp. So, you might already be able to achieve any .jpg image you want on a stamp to personalize it (for a fee, I'm sure!).
Letters wilthout envelopes are popular in Europe and are sold in the usual markets, made of very thin paper.
Another way to always have free envelopes is to unglue the incoming envelopes and glue them back together inside out.
Thanks for the instructible.
-Thanks