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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Jones" data-source="post: 4380087" data-attributes="member: 73134">Animalball mailed 12 CDs total and spent probably US$35 on postage. My brother mailed in 6 CDs with the podcast, and I sent CDs for a pdf product of ours. I spent a little extra on postage, because I wanted to ensure it got there in a timely fashion, and I wanted delivery confirmation.We spent way more than we had to, because we are new to the process.In the future, we can sent everything on a single set of CDs, and if we send early enough, you can actually send CDs on a single $.42 stamp. I would likely get the sturdier cardboard mailers, which can go for $.79 each. As long as I mail early enough, standard USPS mail will get it there in plenty of time. And now that I know the judges are all so open and accessible, I don't need delivery confirmation, because I can just write to them and ask them if they got everything.CDs cost less that $.20 each, so mailing from within the US, I could have had all of this done for under $5 ($7-ish when you include the cost of the mailers). That's it... $7 to submit as many electronic products as I want (no way will I have more than one CD worth of material in a year, even if I was submitting two different podcasts and 10 different PDFs).The only real cost to me was the time. A couple hours worth of my time to burn, package, and mail my stuff in was a drop in the bucket compared to what went into creating them in the first place.I'm not advocating anything, I just wanted to present a more realistic picture of how much cost and effort should be incurred by the current process. If you live within the US and you have all your ducks in a row, there's no reason to spend more than $10 all told to mail 6 CDs. Now, if you're a procrastinator like me, then all bets are off, of course...</blockquote>

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