Create a Kickass Thank You for your Mail Carrier

“…nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds”

The events and pitfalls of 2020 may fully qualify as “gloom of night.” In addition to the looming holiday crush season, USPS workers are facing a barrage of election mail heaped with homebound and remote worker’s increasing needs. My reliance on the carrier that brings essential communication and products to my door has grown, big time. I think it is time to let my mail carrier know how much I appreciate the dedication, doggedness, drive, and grit that is required to do the job. Here is the project I created just for that purpose:

Supplies

• Thank You/Envelope Art Print Outs
• Standard #10 envelope
• Transfer Paper
• Masking Tape
• Black Ball Point Pen
• Scissors
• Crayola Super-Tip Markers
  • Blue
  • Medium Blue
  • Light Blue
  • Red

Directions

1. Print the eagle envelope template and thank you page.
2. Trim the template along the artwork’s border to fit a standard #10 envelope.
3. Using two small pieces of masking tape, gently tape the paper template to your envelope. Tuck a piece of transfer paper between the paper and the envelope. Test to make sure the transfer paper is imprinting onto the envelope (not the back of the template).
4. Trace the image with a ballpoint pen to transfer it to the envelope.
5. Carefully remove the masking tape and template.
6. Color the eagle, banner and message with markers.
7. To create a tri-fold, fold the thank you page along the dotted line, then the top of the page to the dashed line.
8. Cut along the vertical dashed lines to the horizontal dotted line (your first fold). This will make your pull-apart/pull-off thingy’s.
9. Finish by folding the pull-apart/pull-off thingy’s under the top flap and place into your hand decorated envelope.