The postal increases this week are hitting consumers and businesses hard.
One of the most important changes that impacts A Muse is that now it costs an extra $0.17 to mail a square envelope The "rationale" behind this is that apparently square cards do not go through the postal sorting equipment and must be hand-cancelled.
We have considered alternative envelope options for our square notecards but have decided to continue packaging our notecards with 4.5" square envelopes. The reason we started making them in the first place is because our customers begged us to do so and so we assume this still holds true today.
Many of our customers tell us that they reserve the square envelopes to include with gifts or hand-delivered notes. When mailing quantities of our notecards, customers tell us they simply pop them into an A2 evnelope to avoid the extra postal charges. I do this myself.
Secondly, it appears that our international customers have been hardest hit by the postal rate increases - these rates have more than doubled! The good news is that there is not much difference when mailing 5 stamps or 20... so you might as well order 20, right? <smile>
We understand that shipping costs are important to all of our customers. If you have questions about the cost of shipping your international order, please email us at [email protected].
Lastly, with the increase in postal rates, we will be changing our shipping rates next week. Our current rates will be in effect through next Wednesday (May 23rd).
Gotta love the post office!
