Maybe a stupid remark, but doesn't weight depend on the kind of paper
you use?
Over here you can get the higher quality 800 grams/m^2 or the lower
quality of
600 grams/m^2 or the really thin and lightwaight special airmail paper
just
depending on what you want to use it for. Just curious.
Sonja
Julia Thompson schreef:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Julia Thompson wrote:
> > Legal size envelope? As in, big enough for a 8 1/2 X 14 inch piece of
> > > paper to be inserted without folding?
> >
> > No, one of the 8 1/2 by 4 that you fold a sheet into thirds to fit in.
> > I'm trying to calculate the cost of sending it overseas at the post
> > office site but I didn't have any idea how much it weighed. From what
> > you say, I'll bet its under 1 oz.
>
> Oh, that'll be under an ounce, and within the parameters of a
> "normal-sized" envelope. $0.34 now.
>
> A #10 envelope with 3 sheets of 8 1/2" X 11" paper is under an ounce. A
> #9 envelope (which is slightly smaller) with 4 sheets of paper is just a
> hair under an ounce, IIRC (it's been 8 or 9 months since I last dealt with
> that particular problem). (A #10 envelope is 4 1/8" X 9 1/2", and a #9
> envelope, which is about as small as you can comfortably stuff
> letter-size pieces of paper folded into thirds, will fit nicely into a
> #10 envelope.)
>
> Julia
>
> who used to have to know all this stuff, and still didn't trust her memory
> when it came to 4 sheets in a #9 envelope -- weighed each one each time at
> the post office...
