Very true. When I mailed my book, I asked the PO staff person to recommend an appropriate sized envelope. He weighed the book and asked if I was going to include a card or note in the package. He said that if I did, I couldn’t mail using “media rate.” For a single paperback book, sending first class wasn’t onerous, but for several pounds of books, media rate would definitely be the way to go.
(Don’t tell anybody but there was a little post-it note inside the book I sent.) 
Which I nearly missed…
My experience is as long as you just don’t mention it, they will never know that there is a note inside.
Hey y’all!
Apologies but I won’t be sending out mine til tomorrow. Had to move one of the Babybrarians into her college dorm this week. :eek: Can I have some of the kitten’s pain medication too?
Also, I’m mailing media rate, so most likely there won’t be an enclosure. I’ll put my Doper name on the outside of the envelope and try to send a postcard separately.
Ninja kitty says only if you take this damn cone with you!
Congrats on the college offspring, I think mine is just going to inhabit my desk chair until I die.
So I ordered the book off Amazon and had it sent to your address. I really hope this works and it should be there in a week or so!
BLAST!!! I didn’t see this thread until today! >.< I was in last year’s book exchange and I was wondering when would this year’s be… sniffle
Oh well… Next time I guess…! 
I’ll let Sir T-Cups make the official call, but if he’s willing to let you in, I’ll be happy to exchange books with you!
Sir T-Cups, what say you?
If I can have the medicine, I’m willing to wear the cone on my head as a HAT. 
Yep, t-minus 25 minutes and counting until departure. Let the frantic scrambling for co-axial cables and other detritus… commence!
Picunurse, sorry to hear about the rotator cuff surgery for your hubs. I’ve heard that’s a rough one. :eek: Hope it works like a charm though.
Oh, and package has been sent! 
That’s totally fine!!
If you guys are ok with knowing who you are exchanging with then yeah!
Hope you love it!
Oh, JoseB and I are old friends from the Postcard Exchange. I don’t mind knowing if he doesn’t. Okay, tell what yer lookin’ fer bookwise?
I sent out six books the other day. A pile of pretty good historical romances but I forgot any card. Sorry but the girls were about to destroy the post office and I had to get out of there as fast as possible.
Hi, jayrey! Awesome!
I like piña coladas and getting caught in the ra… Sorry 
OK, I like books about history (for instance military history), real crime, and generally things that are based on the real world. I am very fond of scientific divulgation.
As an example of what I have been reading these days:
And so on and so forth But, really – I am a voracious reader, and I will read almost everything
So… I read about your preferences, and I think I found something that you might like
Please PM me your postal address!
All the best,
JoseB
So, Pai I am really hoping you enjoy (or at least don’t hate) the book I sent you.
It’s one of my favorites, and I guess it’s British Mystery in that it takes place in London and it involves a series of murders based in-and-around the discovery of DNA (Watson and Crick and all that)
It’s probably categorized more under “historical fiction”, but it’s the best I could find under the circumstances
JoseB, I sent you the PM. Now to start looking for just the right book for you!
I swear I have ordered my book to exchange… I just don’t know what Amazon is doing… not shipping is one thing they aren’t doing.
No worries. I’m sure it’ll come.
Just lemme know when you’ve sent it because checking the mailbox is a bitch and I don’t wanna do it if I don’t have to
I will, it shipped yesterday so should be here this weekend.
I received a box full of books yesterday and I think they came from LavenderBlue! Thank you!! I dived immediately into Mark Kurlansky’s The Big Oyster. What a treat! The rest will make great Fall/Winter reading. Thanks again!!
Just mailed it! It’s not going far, just about 150 miles. It should get there by Saturday or Tuesday. No duplicates of what you have, I hope.
Thank you. I can’t wait. I am out of town right now, so I won’t get it until next Tuesday or Wednesday, but I am so excited!