Free Hemostats (Merry Christmas to the members)

[guidofatherof5]

I've sent out a lot of hemostats and am glad to do it. If you requested some and haven't received them send me another pm and I'll check my records. I hope I haven't forgotten someone.

[EasternGirl]

Luckily, now that I am in nursing, I have access to hemostats galore...lol. But I think it is wonderful for you to share with the members. A very typical kind Steve gesture

[guidofatherof5]

I thought I had figured out a way to get hemostats across the pond at a reasonable price and it did work for a while. Some of those envelopes were delivered but damaged. Some were returned to me damaged as the machine reading them can't handle the contents. I visited the post office yesterday and was informed that my way wasn't going to work and that I would have to send them out as a package and thus have to fill out the Custom's forms. This also tripled the cost. I hope many of my overseas friends got there hemostats.
This also means I can't use my cardboard mails to ship locally so it's back to bubble mailer for me.

[CrazyHedgehog]

It is the thought that counts!
Thank you very much for trying!

[gregmonsta]

I got hemo-statted today mate , thanks again.

[guidofatherof5]

How was the envelope condition?

[gregmonsta]

Envelope was perfectly fine

[ConcinusMan]

Could have warned you about that one. Anything that isn't just a flat envelope with paper in it going overseas, you can't just slap a stamp in it and mail it. Live and learn.

I can't use my cardboard mails to ship locally so it's back to bubble mailer for me.

Anything with a rigid object in it that can't go through the sorting machines has to mail as a parcel, yes. These include padded envelopes. And mailing like that costs more because they are sorted by hand. If you can't take the envelope and spindle it around a pencil, then it can't go through a sorting machine. You have to send as a parcel (costs more in postage) so it won't be put through a sorting machine like a regular letter would be. It might have worked for you sometimes because depending on where it needs to be sorted, they may or may not even have sorting machines. Some places still do all the sorting by hand. When you mailed them to me, they got sorted by hand. You can always tell when they got sorted by hand. They arrive without those weird lines at the bottom, and the stamps are cancelled by a hand stamper. When you mailed mine, whoever sorted it by hand forgot to cancel the stamps, they were still good.

[Rcortese211]

Still have any left?

[guidofatherof5]

Today the hemostat god's were good to me.
Which means I will once again offer to forum members a pair of free hemostats.
All I need is your name and address and I'll get them out to you.(send a PM) I can only offer these to U.S. members due to the paperwork(Custom's Forms) and cost involved in shipping outside the country. SORRY.