Have any of you tried those companies that take a photo and put it on a postage stamp? I'm wondering how that works and how expensive it is. If it's not too expensive maybe we get CHERUBS Logos printed on postage stamps to raise awareness.
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Have any of you tried those companies that take a photo and put it on a postage stamp? I'm wondering how that works and how expensive it is. If it's not too expensive maybe we get CHERUBS Logos printed on postage stamps to raise awareness.
:D
I have and I am trying to remember the cost. I think it was
around 16.99 per sheet. But I think the more you order the cost goes
down a little. Thats for regular postage. You can order different
rates for like postcards and stuff. I like the idea, though.
Kim
I have just ordered stamps for our Christmas cards.
If you go to photo.stamps.com it tells you all about it.
I think if I email it to you-you save some money. I am going to look at it now and I will email you the information and you can take a look.
If you order more- you get a cheaper price.
Here goes........
I just emailed you the info- had to use volunteer@cherubs-cdh.org- for some reason when I try to email you at dawn torrence@cherubs-cdh.org it won't work. Am I doing something wrong.
I think it would be awesome to do stamps for CHERUBS!!!!!!!
Let me know if you got the email!!!
There's an underscore dawn_torrence
I got the e-mail, thank you Stephanie!!! I'll check it out this afternoon. It would be so great to be able to make people more aware this way!
That is one hot diggety dog idea! I LOVE IT!! What a genious you are, Dawn! I'd love to have those stamps!
Thanks to Stephanie, I found this info:
Item No. Postage Value Price Per Sheet 1 -1 2 -9 10 -99 100 +
Postcard $0.26 15.99 13.99 11.99 Contact Us
1st Class Letter 1oz $0.41 18.99 16.99 14.99
Square/Odd-Shaped 1 oz. Letters $0.58 22.99 20.99 18.99
1st Class Letter 2oz $0.58 22.99 20.99 18.99
1st Class Letter 3oz $0.75 26.99 24.99 22.99
1st Class Letter 3.5oz $0.92 30.99 28.99 26.99
1st Class 4oz $1.31 38.99 36.99 34.99
Priority Mail - 1lb Flat Rate Env. $4.60 109.99 107.99 105.99
I e-mailed asking for a price quote for 1000 and requesting a charity discount. Hopefully this will be cheap enough that we can order them in bulk.
In the meantime, if any of you want to use one of our logo graphics and order them yourself from stamps.com, please feel free to do so! :)
I want to wait until you get the price quote- then see yours of course.
I CAN"T wait- that is going to be so awesome!!!!!!!
What are your ideas on what they will look like? Will you put the wedsite address on them? I wonder if we could design them? I would think we would want the stamp to be the same right? I am so excited about this.
I think we should get a design as quickly as we can and then people can order if they want. I think I am going to look at the site now.
Dawn-I love the idea! I think they would be great to have!
Since im in Canada would it be alright if I used a CHERUBS graphic to order stamps?
Why do you ladies feel about using our new awareness ribbon for a stamp?
I have playing with the stamp and it says you can only use an image- no words.
I think the awareness ribbon would look great- but I wonder if the cdhsupport.org would show up.
I guess if I saw a stamp I was not familar with- I would check out the wedsite if it was on the stamp.
How about making stickers to? They could be used like the Hallmark H.
Something like :
CDH AWARENESS.
Take a look.
cdhsupport.org
Not knowing what CDH means- would you look it up on your computer? I know I would. I think it would be a good idea to put on any piece of mail.
Just a thought- the stamp thing has excited me!!!!!!!!
Ok, I just got the quote - whew, that was quick! They will post our stamps on their site for people to purchase if we can guarantee at least 5000 sheets will sell. And they will give discounts to us if we order as a non-profit at least 100 sheets. That's a lot of stamps - and a lot of upfront money CHERUBS can't afford. The lady I'm talking with is very nice. I'm going to find out how we have to do this guarantee and offered to list them as an official sponsor of CHERUBS if we can set up the direct ordering... only a few charities are doing this so we'll be up there with huge organizations like Toys 4 Tots.
Say a prayer and keep your fingers crossed! :)
Fingers crossed and prayers sent.
That would be so awesome!!!
Let us know as soon as you find out~~~~~~
how much per stamp? 100 USPS stamps is only $39, so how much for for their stamps? I would definitely be interested in purchasing some.
Ok, I finally heard back from them and we have to guarantee a sale of 1000 sheets of stamps or CHERUBS has to pay the difference at $11.16 a sheet. Or we can buy in bulk and sell them ourselves without the worry of having to pay them.
What does everyone think? How many of you would buy them and how many can you estimate family and friends would buy? Do you think we can sell at least 1000?
How many stamps per sheet?
Tammy, they would be sheets of 20 and the price would depend on if we bought them through their site or bought them in bulk and sold them ourselves.
Kara, answered you before I even saw your post. :)
I am so interested.
I would buy some for our family, also for friends.
Tough one! I'd take maybe 4-8 sheets but wow - 1000, that's a lot to unload. Are we confident that we can sell that many?
I have 100 shirts at my house from 2002 or something like that. I'm not too keen on selling 1000 stamps and getting stuck with CHERUBS paying for them - especially when we have so many other things that need to be paid for first (like more packets and a conference).
*Unless* we design them and take orders first. Maybe get the kids to sell them like they do Girl Scout cookies and PTA stuff. Then everyone takes orders and the cash, when we get to 1000 we get them to post it to their site and each of us who sold stuff orders the amount we sold with the money we collected. If 20 of us sold 50 sheets or 50 of us sold 20 sheets... we could pull it off and have it up on their site to sell more in the future without any of this hassle, plus it would be awesome to have the Awareness we would by being on their site. Probably not a good idea to do this with the holidays and people short on cash already, maybe in January as a Valentine's Day type thing people might buy?
Instead of stamps, what about return address labels with the CHERUBS logo or awareness ribbon? I think they have the same impact as stamps, but would they be any cheaper to get? I keep wishing that Cafepress sold them. I use them more than stamps, too. I put them on books/cds/dvds I loan out, kids bookbags, luggage, etc.
Just an idea.
Address labels - I can design those for everyone and put the document into the downloads section and then you just have to buy the labels and print them. You can just edit it in MS Word with your name and address.
I can do this later in the week if you all want them.
I think the Valentines day idea would be great. Your right with the holidays here...people are sometimes running short on funds.
I also like the idea for address labels Kara. I wonder- couldn't we make these up ourselves--maybe Dawn you could give us a standard example and we can just add our address. I would love to see the labels with our new ribbon. Just a thought.
I still like tha stamp idea-----it would be a great fund raiser for valentines day----EVERYONE needs stamps!!!!!
What about those that don't have a color printer to do the labels?
Then we'll just have to help each other out and print labels for each other or something. :) One person buys the labels, the other prints.
I have a color printer.
Kara- I would be more than happy to send you some!!!
Dawn- I can't wait to see what the address labels will look like!!!!
I think the return address labels are an awesome idea. I go thru so many of those things. let me know when you upload the format for them! thanks. I also like the stamp idea, but just not at this time...around Valentine's would be better for me and I think for everyone else too.
Thanks Stephanie for the offer. I have a color printer, though. I'm just thinking for other people. Tee hee! You have to watch out for me; I'm tricky sometimes!
Another idea from brainy me . . . . . what about ribbon stickers. I love sealing my envelopes with stickers. Wouldn't ribbon stickers be cool?
Dawn, I can almost sense you rolling your eyes at me cause I create too much work for you. "I'm the instigator."
Love the idea about ribbon stickers!!!!
Kara- you are trickster....ok, if anyone needs labels, I would love to help.
I got my ribbons in last night and they are SUPER!!!!!!!!
They turned out just perfect!!!!
I think they have round labels for envelopes. Kara, your suggestions so now I'm recruiting you for research to find out if they have them! :) If they do, I'll design that too. Just do a search for Avery labels. And don't forget to use Goodsearch.com! :D
I really like the idea of the address labels and the stickers. I could use those over here too!
Hugs from Germany,
Crista
Good one Dawn- put Kara to work. :D
Can't wait to see what you find Kara.
This is exciting to be doing labels and stickers. Just more work for you Dawn!!!! Do you ever have a dull moment???? Your GOLD girl.
Imagine the awareness that this will help!!!!!!!!!
dull moment? Some women want Paris or Patrick Dempsey. Some want to win the lottery. No, not me... I *dream* of a boring life! Give me a day with nothing to do but clean the house or twiddle my thumbs. LOL Better yet, I'd rather have the family and house, etc (not saying that's boring - sounds like Heaven to me!). A life without medical terminology except when watching Grey's Anatomy or drama except when watching soaps.... oh my gosh, I would *love* to have a dull moment! :)
I love the return address idea! Let me know when you get the file up.
Dawn- My wish for you over the Holidays is to find some time for yourself!!
JUST you!!!!!!! NOTHING ELSE!!!
Hmmm, can I get opinions on the stickers. I wasn't orginally invisioning little round circles with a ribbon in the middle. I was thinking of just simply a ribbon sticker that we have custom made.
you are thinking with people's addresses right?
Just plain simple labels?
I like either way - my feeling is we should make it as easy as we can on CHERUBS members - to print out!
That way it will get out more AWARENESS and it will be very cool!!!!!!
Possibilities are endless!!!
I wish everyday that Cafepress had keychains. I so want a CHERUBS awareness ribbon keychain. People always seem to pay attention to keychains and ask about them.