Cereal Box Mailers - a photo on Flickriver

Cereal Box Mailers

            Bubble wrap envelopes are not recyclable plus they are manufactured and you have to buy them, so I have created a template with which to make mailers from cereal boxes. I have tested it by sending a book to myself and then to others who reported back. The secret is in the way I do the corners. Corners are very vulnerable with books. This way the corner of the mailer takes the brunt of it. My shipment from Singapore contained a number of damaged books though carefully packed 50 to a box.

 I am confident enough to use my mailer to send the first copy of DIMP (as the book team calls it) to Amazon. Amazon is very picky about book condition and will mail it back if not in perfect condition at your expense. I'm glad they keep their standards high and this will be a good test of the mailer. They only wanted one to start with. I have been raiding my neighbors' recycling bins for the boxes. This is apparently a crime with fines from $20 to $500, but that may just be in Oakland where the poor are trying to make a living. 

It takes five minutes a piece to cut and score each mailer. Then there's the packing. I staple the ends together and tape them. This takes time, but not as much as the time it takes to think about each person I send it to and the past that comes with them, some from childhood, high school, some from another country. Then there's the inscription if they ask for one. I try to distill an entire relationship into one line. Some of the recipients I visit in person, spend a couple of hours with. Thus the whole book distribution process slows time way down as though I am moving through another gravity, another dimension altogether. Have sold 40 books this way so far.

Some rights reserved

Taken on: July 7, 2008

Tags:

recycling

cereal boxes

DIMP

my book

mailing

Amazon books « less

Sets appears in: • Home and Garden

Camera: Fujifilm FinePix F20, f/2.8, 1/120 sec, 8mm, ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm FinePix F20
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/120)
Focal Length:	8mm
ISO:	800
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	QuickTime 7.4.5
Show full info

Stats: 12,157 views / 17 comments

go back

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder