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[alexseanchai]

Here's a thought.

I can't, apparently, call my congresscritters. But hey. It's Month of Letters. I can write them some damn postcards.

I'm gonna use the 65's issues list as inspiration. And now I need to shower and get to Staples (and hope) because I don't have postcards.

ETA: Postcards got. First four postcards printed (because they're four to a sheet, you see). Both my US senators, my US representative, and my state representative; the one side has Uncle Sam saying "I WANT YOU to Oppose Trump's Migrant Ban" (the blank postcards came with a URL for templates, you see, and they had holiday, including Fourth of July, with editable text). The other side on the federal congresscritters' cards has "The New Colossus" and a plea to try to save baby Fatemah—this is the four-month-old who needs surgery ASAP and was coming to the US for that surgery and will probably die in the next couple months if she isn't let into the US to get the surgery ASAP. My state rep's card instead thanks him for co-sponsoring a bill to reinforce—re-enforce?—the separation between commercial and investment banking put in place by Glass-Steagall.

Now, about an hour to Do Other Stuff and then off to the post office and then work!

Comments

[redsixwing]

\o/ There you go!

...reminds me, I have a letter to the editor to write. Thanks.

[alexseanchai]

:)

The cost of a postcard stamp is 34¢

[sporky_rat]

I think four by six index cards are permitted, but I'd have to double-check.

*does so* *comes back*

You may think that your mailpiece is a "postcard," because it is a single sheet of paper. But to qualify for mailing at the First-Class Mail postcard price, it must be:
-Rectangular
-At least 3-1/2 inches high x 5 inches long x 0.007 inch thick
-No more than 4-1/4 inches high x 6 inches long x 0.016 inches thick

And further down the page, it notes, '0.007 inches? How do I measure that? As a guide, an index card is thick enough. If in doubt, contact a Mailpiece Design Analyst (MDA) at the Post Office near you. MDAs have tools for precisely measuring thickness and can tell you if your mailpiece is thick enough.'

Source: http://pe.usps.com/BusinessMail101?ViewName=Cards

Re: The cost of a postcard stamp is 34¢

[alexseanchai]

So I want to bug the post office about postcard stamps, not forever stamps. I thought so, but it's good to know. :)

I got actual (if totally blank) postcards. Probably would be cheaper to buy index cards, but the package says "postcards" also says "online printing templates".

Re: The cost of a postcard stamp is 34¢

[sporky_rat]

As the Bene Gesserit say, 'I exist only to serve'.

[executrix]

If it's not much further to the Post Office than to Staples, the Post Office sells official pre-stamped postcards.

[alexseanchai]

Post office is actually closer, it's just in the other direction, and anyway I am home from Staples. But thanks.

[ghostgum]

This is brilliant. I'm going to have to buy a pack of postcards (after checking whether this is, indeed, an option where I live, but I totally bet that it is!) and then start sending them out to people like - stop locking refugees up in concentration camps, etc. This I can totally do!

[alexseanchai]

eeee :)

[silveradept]

Well done, you!