Well, I wish I had know about buying the 4X8 envelopes online but I did pretty well by buying the 6x9 ones in bulk from Staples. I needed the larger ones for the multiple pin orders plus the keychain anyway.
I used a Paypal button and it worked pretty well except for the fact that I had it set up for a flat rate and Paypal took it upon itself to add a $1 S/H fee. Will make up for that with a donation to UNICEF. I printed all the invoices to stuff in the envelopes and have made special mailing labels.
I used Pin Promotions and Jeff was great. The poor man hasn't been sleeping much though since he heard the name Clay Aiken. He even had all the calls forwarded to his house over 4th of July weekend in case anyone had problems. Now that is way beyond the call of duty!
All in all, once the initial rush was over, things went pretty smoothly (after getting my email address removed several times from one board). I only had a few people who wanted more than was allowed and one who ordered a keychain even after I said no, since she wasn't a member of the CH ...she had already ordered a dozen pins!(BTW, I refunded her money for the keychain.)
This definitely was a learning experience but actually quite a lot of fun. Got to meet lots of Clay fans from all over. It almost seems boring not to be getting a zillion emails a day...just kidding!
And I do like using the silly little emoticons every once in a while!