Shipping thicker cards with Standard Envelope

[onefootflipper]

I mostly specialize in Magic / Pokemon and I have sort of just been letting my thicker sports cards pile up unlisted because I wasn't sure about shipping them. 

I was going to list this particular card and when checking comps I saw one had recently sold using standard envelope. 

Is anyone shipping thicker sports cards standard envelope? If so then how are you doing it? Top loader? Cardboard? Penny sleeve? Please let me know your procedure so I don't end up doing it wrong.

Second card in photo to show thickness compared to standard baseball card.

[biggymoe]

I have several thicknesses of top loaders.  The thickest you can use is 138pt, to fit through the 1/4" USPS requirement.  I use them for a thick card, or several regular cards.  Also there is a 3 oz weight limit.

[johnjefprks]

I wouldn't try it. I have been using ESU since it started. There has to be some flexibility or it won't go thru the sorting machine. The Post office will probably return it for being non-machinable.

[onefootflipper]

I ship a massive amount of standard envelope orders, although probably not as many as johnjefprks does. 

I have found the largest problem with them is postal employees, not what will make it through the machines. Hand an envelope with a top loader in it to a postal employee and most of them will say it is a package, drop that same envelope in the mailbox and it will make it to the destination just fine and track all the way which means it must be going through the machines. 

The thicker cards definitely seem to meet ebay's standards for standard envelope but I am really wondering how much trouble postal employees are going to be with them. I had to stop mailing standard envelopes at my own post office entirely, they would just put a rubber band around the entire stack and give it to my carrier and return them to my house every single time, and that wasn't even with top loaders in there, just a magic sleeve with 4 cards in it taped inside the envelope. Changed where I mailed them and that problem vanished entirely. 

[jh691626]

For whatever it's worth, I have been using standard envelope for thicker sportscards and so far it has worked out very well.  Probably 30-40 times at this point.  

[onlinecentral]

This discussion was before the Standard Envelope was introduced. There is a remote possibility someone may learn something.
How To Ship Trading Cards?
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/How-To-Ship-Trading-Cards/td-p/31203299/

[murphy71605]

The card should be shipped in the appropriate size toploader and I personally wouldn't ship a card that thick with ESE. There is no flex whatsoever in a card that thick, even a 75 Pt. jersey or bat card have little to no flex to them and your card is thicker than that. I would send that card in a bubble mailer but that's just me. I see lots of sellers using ESE for thick cards but I wouldn't buy from a seller using this service because those cards could be damaged going through the processing machines IMO.