How do you like your cards packed?

[alanu]

I like cardboard on both sides of the card, inserted into a used bubble wrap envelope (the only green in me) and inserted in a small flat rate priority box. This would be only for more expensive cards that merit priority mail

[steve B]

That's pretty much how I pack. Penny sleeve upside down in a toploader to protect from the tape, stiff cardboard both sides, taped together into a bubble envelope. Most of what I sell is inexpensive. The few nicer cards I've sold have usually gone in a small priority flat rate box, with peanuts, bubble wrap, whatever other reusable packing I can find.

Yeah,the tape over the top of the toploader is a nuisance and usually wrecks the toploader. I'd be happy to hear of a better way to seal it so the card won't get out.

The worst I've seen was cards sent in a plain envelope, not even a penny sleeve.

Steve B

Originally Posted by alanu

I like cardboard on both sides of the card, inserted into a used bubble wrap envelope (the only green in me) and inserted in a small flat rate priority box. This would be only for more expensive cards that merit priority mail

[FrankWakefield]

It isn't "the tape over the top of the toploader is a nuisance", it is when it is magic tape that it is a pain. It doesn't peel as well as normal tape, and it is more likely to leave a residue.

Inverting the sleeve is good. It's obvious to anyone who's bought a card and received it stuck to that bit of tape across the hole in the toploader. It's amazes me how seldom it's inverted.

[mintacular]

Plain white envelope all the way and TONS of tape. I want my vintage to look like a potato chip by the time it arrives

On a serious note: sleeve, top loader, team bag, padded mailer and cardboard for graded slabs....

[vintagetoppsguy]

I write the address in black Sharpie on the slab with a first class stamp and off it goes. Works every time.

Actually, I use Pat's method below. For multiple graded cards (which I am shipping a board member this morning), they will bet boxed up in a 400ct box with buble wrap.

Originally Posted by mintacular

sleeve, top loader, team bag, padded mailer and cardboard for graded slabs....

[Howe’s Hunter]

but once won an auction that promised delivery in a protective plastic container. The card arrived in a zip lock sandwich bag inside a #10 envelope. No other packaging. Paid $6 for that about 15 years ago.