Cheap Card Stock for Printing Your own Postcards

[Shaun Reilly]

Bouncing around ideas and one I had was printing off my own postcards and sending them out using EDDM.

The USPS has some weird rules about the sizes so I am trying to figure out what makes sense. 12x12 seems like a size you can get without much trouble and a 6x12 piece seems to fit the EDDM guidelines so I was thinking of getting 2 pieces per sheet on something like this.

I should note I do want to do a saturation mailing which is why I'm thinking EDDM. I also WANT the pieces to look kind of cheap so printing them myself works for that. :)

However the point if for minimal costs. Most things I have quickly found online for cardstock is over $0.10 per piece which is way too much. That would put the total with postage at like $0.26 a piece minimum without accounting for ink. Looks like you can get a mailing house to do a run of slightly smaller cards, do the EDDM packaging, and with postage for only like $0.10 for runs in the 2,500 piece range. That is a lot of work to save for $250!

Anyway I think I would want the price per piece to be topping out around $0.20 to consider it possibly being worth it. Anyone have ideas on getting cardstock that might make this possible?