Post by mailartist on Aug 17, 2016 22:38:51 GMT
All envelopes are not created equal, it seems.
I just bought a large box of envelopes from a thrift store. I liked the color, and the feel of the paper, which reminded me a bit of watercolor paper.
Well, we've had an unusually humid and muggy summer (more so than usual), and one envelope that I put out in the mailbox at night had, by the next morning, picked up enough moisture from the air that it was buckled and bloated, and as wet as if I had pulled it out of the washing machine after the spin cycle.
I couldn't send the letter as it was, since I feared it would get mashed up in the postal machines. So I brought it inside to weight it down. It's now flat, but definitely wrinkled, although an excess of packing tape should allow it to be delivered as planned.
I hope.
Our mailbox is generally dry, so the only thing I could think of was that this paper will suck up every molecule of moisture that's in the air, like those silica gel packets that come in boxes of new shoes. Most business envelopes feel like they have a plastic coating of sorts to prevent this sort of thing from happening, but maybe that's why someone got rid of the whole box.
Anybody else had problems with damp or wet envelopes? Usually they would come from rain storms, or puddles, or spilled pop, but did they travel okay? And does anybody know the best way to save a damp letter? In this case, I didn't want to chuck the wet envelope because I couldn't reuse the international stamps that were on it.
I just bought a large box of envelopes from a thrift store. I liked the color, and the feel of the paper, which reminded me a bit of watercolor paper.
Well, we've had an unusually humid and muggy summer (more so than usual), and one envelope that I put out in the mailbox at night had, by the next morning, picked up enough moisture from the air that it was buckled and bloated, and as wet as if I had pulled it out of the washing machine after the spin cycle.
I couldn't send the letter as it was, since I feared it would get mashed up in the postal machines. So I brought it inside to weight it down. It's now flat, but definitely wrinkled, although an excess of packing tape should allow it to be delivered as planned.
I hope.
Our mailbox is generally dry, so the only thing I could think of was that this paper will suck up every molecule of moisture that's in the air, like those silica gel packets that come in boxes of new shoes. Most business envelopes feel like they have a plastic coating of sorts to prevent this sort of thing from happening, but maybe that's why someone got rid of the whole box.
Anybody else had problems with damp or wet envelopes? Usually they would come from rain storms, or puddles, or spilled pop, but did they travel okay? And does anybody know the best way to save a damp letter? In this case, I didn't want to chuck the wet envelope because I couldn't reuse the international stamps that were on it.