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faceyneck
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sending spore prints
#5850380 - 07/12/06 10:29 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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What is the safest way to send sporeprints to people?
I sent a print in a letter envelope without a return address on Friday, from the midwest to Florida, and it still isn't there.
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: faceyneck]
#5850400 - 07/12/06 10:35 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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put it on foil, thin sheet.
Buy a birthday card or something. Get a happy b-day envelope.. Put the print inside..
Easy as pie. And BTW, there are only a few states that your not aloud to have spores. So unless the mail goes through there your all good. Best to be sneaky for privacy's sake tho.
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faceyneck
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Thanks for the advice.
Have you sent prints this way before?
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: faceyneck]
#5850612 - 07/12/06 12:01 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I send prints in security type envolopes... the kind you can't see through. I usually wrap the spore print in a folded up peice of black paper... so it looks just like a letter. I have a hole punch in the shape of a mushroom...and punch the flap on the back of the envolope. The black paper inside makes the mushroom stand out!~ Probably not a good idea to get a print from me if your paranoid!~ lolzz And sometimes I write a note if I have enough time.

Since spores are legal to have... and since I don't send to States that spores are illegal... I usually will put a return address on the envolope.
I have had 3 letter returned to me... over all the years that I have been sending and trading spore prints.
tc
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: Roadkill]
#5850636 - 07/12/06 12:09 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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did you make sure to use the correct amount of postage? 39 cents?
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: Yamidude]
#5850803 - 07/12/06 01:17 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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> I sent a print in a letter envelope without a return address
Just a note... You should always put a return address on your letters. It looks suspicious when letters don't have a return address. With terrorism and whatnot you don't want your letters looking suspicious. I wouldn't be surprised if they started sending all non-return address letters through one of their sterilization facilities.
Just look in the phone book for a random address in your same area and use it. Or even put the same address as the return and the to address.
You also don't want to use a bunk address, the PO knows what addresses are good and which are non-existant so use a real one.
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: fastfred]
#5850865 - 07/12/06 01:37 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Just dont send to Idaho, Georga, or Cali and you'll be good.
Also send on a week day other than Thursday and Friday, it limits the amount of stagnant sitting time the spores will go through. Sitting time = time to heat up and die.
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: Capless]
#5850886 - 07/12/06 01:45 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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sometimes they get lost in the mail for some odd reason. Thats what sucks.
I have had a few prints get lost in the mail.
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: Roadkill]
#5851011 - 07/12/06 02:32 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Roadkill said: I send prints in security type envolopes... the kind you can't see through. I usually wrap the spore print in a folded up peice of black paper... so it looks just like a letter. I have a hole punch in the shape of a mushroom...and punch the flap on the back of the envolope. The black paper inside makes the mushroom stand out!~ Probably not a good idea to get a print from me if your paranoid!~ lolzz And sometimes I write a note if I have enough time.

Since spores are legal to have... and since I don't send to States that spores are illegal... I usually will put a return address on the envolope.
I have had 3 letter returned to me... over all the years that I have been sending and trading spore prints.
tc
First of all: Thank you so much for answering this thread! I thought of PMing you, but then 'lo and behold, you answered THIS thread!
Secondly: you are making these prints at the same place that you are growing mushrooms, right, or are you in a position that if it came down to it, and cops raided the place of the returned address, your mushrooms are grown somewhere else?
That's what I'm worried / paranoid about.
Thanks again for your help, roadkill.
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: Yamidude]
#5851015 - 07/12/06 02:33 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yamidude said: did you make sure to use the correct amount of postage? 39 cents?
Just in case, I put two stamps on there. But yes, they were both 39 cent stamps.
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: faceyneck]
#5851057 - 07/12/06 02:43 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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lolzz
you must have me confused with someone else...
I don't grow anything and never have!~
Everything that I post is purely fictional... and maybe I'll write a story book about it someday!~ 
Johnny Law would waste alot of time and effort if he ever came to my house.
and lets just leave it at that!~

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Re: sending spore prints [Re: faceyneck]
#5851060 - 07/12/06 02:44 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Best way I know of is in inexpensive Christmas or greeting cards. That way, they are more protected. You cannot see through them & the cards are common place mail.
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faceyneck
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: Tippinthru]
#5851253 - 07/12/06 03:53 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks for the advice, guys.
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: faceyneck]
#5851262 - 07/12/06 03:58 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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why would you be worried about sending? a print is legal.
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liamtheloser
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Police can't raid your house if you send a spore print to someone... That would be a violation of your rights as a citizen of the United States.
Spores are a legal item to sell, and there's no way a judge would issue a search warrant for someones home for mailing a spore print to someone. Not to mention, they would never know if you sent a spore print to someone, because despite what most people assume, letters are private. If you sent a giant box of mushrooms to someone, that would be illegal, and a reason for a search warrant, but sending a legal item in the mail would never get your home raided.
So just put your return address on the bill so it doesn't go through the radiation sanitizer and kill all of the spores.
Anyways, people have the right to be paranoid, but only if it's justified.
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: faceyneck]
#5851833 - 07/12/06 07:08 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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faceyneck said:
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Yamidude said: did you make sure to use the correct amount of postage? 39 cents?
Just in case, I put two stamps on there. But yes, they were both 39 cent stamps.
Hmmm... I did that once and they returned the letter to me. I know it doesn't make sense, but maybe that's the explanation. - Also, I checked out a USPS article (from October 2001) that lists no return address, and excessive postage among things that are "suspicious."
Edited by Land_Crab (07/12/06 07:12 PM)
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: Land_Crab]
#5851872 - 07/12/06 07:17 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I put totally fake return address. If it gets lost it gets lost.
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: Liquidkick]
#5851972 - 07/12/06 07:37 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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> I checked out a USPS article (from October 2001) that lists no return address, and excessive postage among things that are "suspicious."
Yep. I think I read that also. That's why you should always put a return address and correct postage on it.
If it had two 37 cent stamps on it, it wouldn't be suspicious, but two 39 cent stamps is suspicious, especially if it isn't a bulky letter.
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: fastfred]
#5851985 - 07/12/06 07:39 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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> I put totally fake return address.
That can draw a red flag too. Best to pull one from the phone book.
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faceyneck
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Re: sending spore prints [Re: fastfred]
#5852290 - 07/12/06 08:37 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well, I'm just going to go ahead and send them out with my return address on them, because I guess its safer that way.
Thanks again for all the input.
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