Yep, garden hose washers and coin flips mostly. Cheap and effective against the mail rollers. One or two stamps and you’re good.
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You are not a Post man are you LOL
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Probably wouldn’t have asked the question if I was, no? Be broke as hell too. I guess I shouldn’t have asked. I apologize oh great knowledgeable mail master.
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Ok, next batch of mail heading for the box. If you are waiting on seeds or pollen from me, it’s on the way 
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Looks like u got a full train good sir
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Hose washer and coin flip is the easiest. Put in a dollar store thank you card. Envelope under an ounce and no wider than 1/4 inch is the cheapest way to mail.
Yes, basic mail and a stamp.
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Also just in case for the states you can buy non machinable stamps for $.78 they can hold more than the standard 1oz and they don’t go through the machines. They have a butterfly on them it’s purple.
From the dollar store buy the 8 pack or whatever of thank you cards more bang for your buck!
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Perfect! Thanks!
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Awesome! Thanks!
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Something I’ve also done is if you don’t have international stamps you can slap 3 Forever stamps on a letter to go to Canada. Would assume the same for any international, but only ever tried it to Canada. Other than that, a coin flip and hose washer like others said. Seems to be one of the safest without buying or printing the 3d printable ones. You wanna get really fancy you can likely get @Bobgrows to make up a custom one for ya.
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Definitely not getting fancy. Haha
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Not SUPPOSED to to go through the machines. I know of one instance just recently where they still ran it through the rollers 
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Ya that sucks I’ve also seen people use non machinable stamps from Amazon or office depot. Still only works if they actually follow said instructions.
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Most common way you’ll see is with coin flip and hose washer. Also, @Bobgrows makes 3d printed seed pucks for a very reasonable price. I use corrugated plastic reinforced with toothpicks. I also got a bag of pucks from bob.
You must devise a protective container that is less than 1/4 inch thickness and will protect seeds from the mail processing roller crushers.
Some send with 1 anytime stamp. I send with 1 non-machinable anytime stamp and also use a red rubber stamp to mark the envelope “non-machinable”. If I send international, I use 1 global anytime stamp plus 1 domestic anytime stamp to cover the non-machinable surcharge.
I put the beans in the enclosure inside a greeting card. I get the cards at a local craft store in packs of 50 for less than 5usd.
My total cost for everything including the stamp is less than 2usd. Add 1usd more for international.
I’ve only ever had 1 pack out of many sent not make it to it’s destination.
As is mentioned above, sometimes they still run it through the crushers, so good protective packaging is critical.
Good luck! Peace
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The pucks are fairly inexpensive…
.15 cents a piece. Just FYI.
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What… does that… mean…?
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Nighttime smoke!
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I see what you did there…
Thanks for sharing these seeds!!
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I’m just doing seed pucks in little padded envelopes and however many forever or international stamps it takes. Thanks for all of the info! Great answers.
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That’s how I started out, small padded envelopes. Average shipping stateside was $4+, needed customs form for Canada.
100 flips, 100 washers cost
$25 and a dollar to mail.
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