sharla

Updates in the ~trying to please the USPS saga~

Added 2021-06-25 05:03:53 +0000 UTC

If you missed my previous post about the Postcard Club...

tl;dr: Since the pandemic started lots of my postcards are being sent back to me, mostly from the US & one or two from other countries.

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Thanks so much to everyone who replied to my post and let me know it might be because the mail sorting machines aren't able to read them properly! Everything is checked by hand here in Japan, so that didn't even cross my mind.

I've purchased a thermal label printer and I'm going to put the postcards in envelopes so I'm able to address them the "american way" - In Japan the stamps go on the opposite side, and maybe that was confusing the machines?? Who knows but fingers crossed this does the trick.

The label printer is really cute, and I can even print out photos with it! I'll test out a few types of labels this month to see what I can get away with. Preferably I'd love to use the cute ones, but that also might be a no-go with the mail sorting machines.... let's see how it goes.

If you're in the Postcard Club, I'll be shipping out this month's mail next week - if it arrives with you please do me a favour and leave a comment on this post letting me know. I'm really worried that no one is getting their postcards😭💔