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How to save on shipping...

MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
in Trading Cards & Memorabilia Forum
...re-use generic corn flake boxes. The not-so-inocent's name has been covered.

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Hopefully, whatever is inside traveled well..doesn't look too beat up...amazingly.

Mark
Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.

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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭
    It'll be even funnier if corn flakes were used to help protect the contents.
  • recbballrecbball Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭
    Lol, I don't feel too guilty about re-using bubble mailers now.
  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,950 ✭✭✭✭
    But it's the smart option, says it right on the box!
  • Ladder7Ladder7 Posts: 1,221 ✭
    Creative recycling... Though, I'd have turned it inside out. Good stuff
    some cards
  • royalbrettroyalbrett Posts: 620 ✭✭✭
    Interesting.

    On a side note, it looks like you don't live too far from my grandmother.
    Yeah, I uploaded that KC icon in 2001
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    Slightly smashed, but not too bad, and likely was this way before shipping (?)

    1998/1999 Cleo's might be the most common of all the 1990s valentine cards, but I have never seen this packaging before. The cards might be cut different, having been made into two card panels, but I cant seem to find my regular Steve Young to compare it.

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    Back shows a McNair/Marino panel. Packaing is fairly tight and corners on all (or most) appear nicked.

    It also comes with a sheet of NFL stickers that are about 3/4 of an inch square. I have a couple Youngs likely from a sheet like these, but these have a big (c) 1999 on the side I dont remember the others having...and I was thinking the others are 1998?

    I'll dig through the Young piles tonight...
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • SDavidSDavid Posts: 1,584 ✭✭
    I thought the post office didn't accept boxes with markings on them?
  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I thought the post office didn't accept boxes with markings on them? >>



    They'll take anything they can get nowadays
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    The Young is a little different. This one has a 1998 copyright...the ones in the regular grocery store valentine packs have a 1999 copyright, the box/photo design is a little bigger, and the one from the grocery store boxes is perforated on two sides. Both have the same message. Can't see the back of the one in the package but it is likely slightly different as well.

    So I would assume if you are a Marino or Favre collector....their card is likely different as well.
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It'll be even funnier if corn flakes were used to help protect the contents. >>



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    Donato
    Hobbyist & Collector (not an investor).
    Donato's Complete US Type Set ---- Donato's Dansco 7070 Modified Type Set ---- Donato's Basic U.S. Coin Design Set

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  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    I think I have a cleaner Young here somewhere....but here is the normal one and the "Bonus Pack" variation besides each other.

    (There are a couple 90s NFL PC collectors that this might be of interest to. I am 90% sure Beckett has catalogued this issue...but only one variation.)

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    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,586 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Did you notice the two different dates at the bottom of your perforated issue and the one in the package?
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    And here I thought I had already seen everything.

    Good for you.
  • Sean1125Sean1125 Posts: 3,479
    You have! Mark is faking it!
  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,342 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>And here I thought I had already seen everything. >>



    I agree Steve, who would have thought they would have made Steve Young Valentine's, and that we would actually have board members who collect them?

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  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>Did you notice the two different dates at the bottom of your perforated issue and the one in the package? >>




    Yes, but I think they are both just 1999. Valentines day is in Feb., I know with calanders you have to print them and have them ready six months in advance for retailers to order them....I would think Valentines Day is the same...retail wise. Meaning all the 1999 Valentines Cards were really printed in 1998. Also, as I noted, but not together, the stickers in the Gift Pack are dated 1999, just the cards are dated 1998.

    So I think this is more like Topps Baseball Series 1 and like were some of the newer issues say the previous year (as they are released in Dec.),

    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>And here I thought I had already seen everything. >>



    I agree Steve, who would have thought they would have made Steve Young Valentine's, and that we would actually have board members who collect them?

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    I missed out on a couple personal Steve Young Christmas Cards a couple years ago. Ones that the Youngs sent out to family/friends.

    The Young collection is past the point I don't like showing it to anyone....as it makes me look extremely obsessive....image
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>And here I thought I had already seen everything. >>




    Did you notice it came from one of those crazy Phillie people? image


    The 13 on the package means I am the 13th leg of the mailers route....I get my mail late everyday. image
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • Sean1125Sean1125 Posts: 3,479
    I get my mail at noon :]
  • CrazyMind2017CrazyMind2017 Posts: 1,205 ✭


    << <i>The Young collection is past the point I don't like showing it to anyone....as it makes me look extremely obsessive....image >>



    Laces out!

    I've used big Fruit By The Foot boxes to send stuff, but they're thick and rigid, like a regular Priority Mail box. Also used some old Chevron Techron boxes too. People shouldn't expect much when they're buying four jars of 10-year old peanut butter that have pictures of Derek Jeter on the labels.
  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,342 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>And here I thought I had already seen everything. >>



    I agree Steve, who would have thought they would have made Steve Young Valentine's, and that we would actually have board members who collect them?

    image >>




    I missed out on a couple personal Steve Young Christmas Cards a couple years ago. Ones that the Youngs sent out to family/friends.

    The Young collection is past the point I don't like showing it to anyone....as it makes me look extremely obsessive....image >>



    For the record, I'm just messin' with ya. I wish I could be as focused on one aspect of collecting as you and some of the other player collectors are.
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