Large White Cardboard CD Mailer with Adhesive Flap - 50 Pack

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00065DGF0
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #38 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Audio & Video Accessories > Media Storage & Organization > Disc Storage Wallets
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 4, 2007

Product Description

This is the perfect mailer for delivering your disc via USPS, UPS or Fedex!

The mailer doesn't require any additional packaging to send via these carriers. It's easy to seal, and easy for the enduser to open.

Customer Reviews

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72 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Practical, Cheap, and Well Made, November 30, 2007

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beesquare (FALLS CHURCH, VA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Large White Cardboard CD Mailer with Adhesive Flap - 50 Pack (Electronics)

Made of glossy-both-sides cardboard. Easy to write on with a ballpoint pen but if you want to use a fountain pen or roller ball with liquid ink, better use a paper label. Also, if you have a rubber stamp with "Media Mail" or "First Class" don't use it because the ink will smear. Use a sticker or write with a ballpoint instead. The cardboard material is thicker than a picture postcard but not quite as thick as the cardboad that comes with a new man's shirt. No internal padding, so the mailer is not as stiff as heavier and considerably more expensive ones I have been buying from Office Depot. However, I have been using Netflix DVD rental service successfully for years and their disk mailers are just flimsy paper, so I conclude that these mailers are very safe for mailing your disks even without the internal padding. The inside is glossy smooth, so it will not damage the surface of your disk. Overall sealed dimensions of the mailer are 6 inches x 5-15/16 inches. Unsealed dimensions are 6 inches x 7-5/8. These mailers are designed to mail disks either bare or in a paper or vinyl sleeve; there is not room inside for a plastic jewel case. The flap is securely self-sealing; just remove a paper strip to expose the adhesive and press the flap closed. The flap incorporates a perforated zip strip for easy opening of the package by the recipient. The description of "50 pack" is a bit misleading. A full pack of these contains more than 50 mailers so I received the quantity of 50 loose; i.e. not in sealed packaging; however that is not problem for me.

For calculating postage costs: each mailer weights 0.6 ounces empty, 1.2 ounces with one CD or DVD with paper sleeve, or 1.8 ounces with two disks in paper sleeves. The postal rate structure has gotten more complicated lately... so much so that even the postal clerks can get confused. Your most accurate source to calculate postage is the website: [...]. Within the USA, you can send these mailers first class cheaper than media mail, but there is a surcharge over the letter rate. The mailers are defined as packages instead of letters because they are (1) square, and (2) contain a rigid object (so they have to be hand-canceled). Right now (5/31/2011) the first class letter rate for two ounces is 64 cents, but the first class package rate is 84 cents. Letters sent outside the USA can go first class international. These rates vary by country, but once again there is the surcharge to be paid. For example, first class international letter rate for 2 ounces to Costa Rica is $1.76; package rate is $1.96. For Australia: letter = $1.82; package $2.02. Parenthetically, there is a big stink going on now because the USPS has let Netflix pay the letter rate instead of the package rate for their zillions of DVD mailings.

46 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars beware misinformed USPS clerks!, June 9, 2010

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RTR (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Large White Cardboard CD Mailer with Adhesive Flap - 50 Pack (Electronics)

These mailers are excellent, but I had to go to the mat with my local Post Office. They insisted it had to be mailed as a package because of the stiffness. I printed out the info from the USPS website and returned to the Post Office. Eventually the supervisor contacted someone higher up and agreed I was correct--these go as "non-machinable letters." The dimensions information above is incorrect. When folded shut, these mailers are 5.7" h by 6.3" w. If they were over 6.1" high they could not go as a letter. I had enclosed a DVD with full-face label, inside a light sleeve, plus with a 4.7" square insert printed on card stock and the leftover DVD label sheet with end labels for a crystal case. This all came in under 2 oz. A regular letter of that weight would require $0.61 in postage, but because it is stiff (non-machinable) there is a surcharge of $0.20, so the postage was $0.81. My PO insisted because it contained a DVD that it must be a package. Wrong. By its dimensions it is a letter. Because it is stiff (also because it isn't sufficiently rectangular) there is an extra charge of 20 cents. Don't let them bully you into paying $1.39 postage for a "first-class mail package." If it were too large to be a letter (as in a large envelope), then being stiff would kick it up to requiring "first-class mail package," but its dimensions are within the "letter" limits. Hope this saves you some time and money!

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good quality, November 9, 2006

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Anna K. Davis "Anna Kae" (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Large White Cardboard CD Mailer with Adhesive Flap - 50 Pack (Electronics)

I used these envelopes to send copies of a DVD formatted slideshow that I made for all my friends that went on a cross-country trip with me over the summer. Every one of them, living all over the US, got the envelopes and watched the DVDs without complaining about any scratches or glitches. The disks were in the envelopes without any protection and with no extra adhesives. I'm very happy with their quality and would recommend them to anyone who wishes to send a friend a disk. They're light, strong, and good quality. Your disks won't be damaged at all! Mine weren't! I'm very satisfied with this product.