EDDM with scratch offs and penny affixed

[donsaction]

I have a customer wanting to an EEDM card, 6.5 x 9, with 3 scratch off spots and a penny affixed about the middle of the card. I have a tabber to do the scratch offs but have no experience in attaching a penny to the card. 70,000 to 90,000 quantity.
Does anyone have any experience with something like this, or ideas

 

[kdw75]

Glue dots?

 

[SteveSuffRIT]

Better check with USPS?
May not matter if EDDM (Every Door Direct Mail) does NOT go through automated machinery.

 

[keith1]

Postal requirements aside, I'd be curious as to how one acquires 70-90,000 pennies?!

 

[donsaction]

USPS is telling us it can go but with an extra charge for varying thickness.
Yep, that is a lot of pennies! I'm wondering with coin shortage if that will be an issue, too. But the customer is handling that.

So far glue dots plus a lot of hand work is seeming to our best option.

 

[jwheeler]

So far glue dots plus a lot of hand work is seeming to our best option.

I'm sure there are machines to fully automate the process that would be worth investing in if this becomes a core part of your business. But for a one-off job like this, I think you're right with the hand work. U-line sells both an automated glue dot machine that seems like a low cost investment (seen in this video), and a hand-held glue-dot gun. Both are available at this link.

 

[Shawnd]

How about printing a 3d penny sticker on thick cardboard then attaching it, or would it be cheaper to get the penny these days

 

[PricelineNegotiator]

Postal requirements aside, I'd be curious as to how one acquires 70-90,000 pennies?!

The penny store?

 

[donsaction]

They want an actual coin that can be peeled off to use on the scratch offs.

 

[MailGuru]

The penny store?

As in "JC Penny's"

 

[MailGuru]

I'm interested, did this job ever come to fruition?

How'd it go?

 

[donsaction]

It did. We ended up running about 35,000, instead of the original 90,000, and using glue dots to affix the pennies by hand. A lot of hand work, but it went out.
If we do it again, I have seen a couple of places online that say can automate it though.

 

[MailGuru]

Awesome!

Love to read/hear about off-mainstream jobs that takes some ingenuity to figure out how to accomplish!

Good Job!