[IBL] IBL Card Printing/Sorting as Baseball Trip Fundraiser

[genny]

Hi all - Hope all is well.  I had a notion wanted to run by you all and see
if any interest.

I coach my 12 yo son's baseball team, and this coming summer they are
traveling from Minnesota to Cooperstown, NY to play in a week-long baseball
tournament there.  There is a lot of excitement around it, as our
association sends only one team a summer, and only at 12U.  So it's a
one-time opportunity for the kids.

Anyway, it's also self-funded and expensive, and we have a number of
families for whom it is a significant financial challenge, so we are doing
a number of fund-raising efforts.  Overall, our pie-in-the-sky goal is
$20,000, which would cover registration fees, lodging, and other expenses
for the players and families.

I was wondering if any owners would be interested in having their IBL cards
printed, cut, sorted, and mailed in exchange for a donation to our
fundraising.  Basically I was thinking $50 plus costs (printing and
postage, which I would document with receipts).  I would arrange for the
printing, then get the kids together to do the sorting.  I'd package and
mail out to you.

Below is a thread from last year on card printing.  From it, it looks like
printing/cutting generally runs $25-$30 (I think that's what I paid last
year too).  I would use Rusty's method unless you had other individual
instructions, which we'd try to honor.  Here is Rusty's method from below:

*"65 pound card stock, hitters on blue, pitchers on green, park cards on
yellow, charts on ivory."*

I'm can't recall when cards usually come out, but the goal would be to get
the cards in the mail within a week of release, hopefully sooner.

If you were interested, let me know.  I have a Paypal account, so if you
are interested and have one, that would be a fairly easy payment method.
If no or little interest, no worries at all, and in any event thanks to you
all for considering it.

- David





On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Jocelyn Labbe <jocelyn_labbe at me.com>
wrote:

> I ordered my set over the web this evening and will pick them up tomorrow
> at Staples. $25 canadian. I used to print them on card stock and cut them,
> but it took a lot of time. So I have been taking a USB key to Staples for
> the past 3 or 4 years. Now I tried online, we will see if they got the
> instructions right!
>
> Jocelyn
> On Mar 21, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Neal Williams <rockies13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone in the past considered sending out the cards and getting them
> printed on nice card stock, as well as cut?
> >
> > Maybe if we had enough numbers we could sort of get a discount?  I found
> that my paper versions last year got pretty beat up by the end of the
> season.
> >
> > Just a thought...
> >
> > N
> > HAV
>
>
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