First Bubble Mailer in a While

Most of my recent trades have come in a plain white envelope (pwe).  With the cost of postage being close to $3 for a bubble mailer, most collectors are finding cheaper ways to send cards.  I have even gotten 2 pwes from the same collector for one trade.  As long as the cards arrive in good shape, I really don't care how they get to me.  I will add some collectors go a little overboard with the scotch tape when using a pwe.  It should not take me 5 minutes to remove 6 cards from an envelope, but that is a story for another post. 

I did receive a rare bubble mailer from TCDB member Lugnut80 earlier this week.  I was able to send him a stack of late 1990s set fillers for a nice handful of Cardinals.

 

There are a ton of variations to the 1988 Topps Stickers.  Most of them have to do with the player on the back.  This one has Andre Dawson.  I chose not to scan it though, because that would be 2 days in a row of a Cub making an appearance on this blog.  I do have my limits.

These 2 finished my 1997 Bowman's Best team set.  These would have looked so much better without the large dots and swirls.

I received another 2 sided card with this 1997 Donruss Limited Dmitri Young.  The other side features Brewer Antone Williamson.  I think we know who had the better career out of those 2.

 Rounding out the package were a couple of 2019 inserts of Matt Carpenter.  I am not sure what to expect from Carp in 2020.  I doubt he is the same guy who hit 36 home runs in 2018, but he is also not the same player who hit .226 in 2019.  At least I hope he is not.  If Carp can learn how to hit against the shift, he could return to being a .300 hitter.  If he continues to try to pull the ball out of the park every time up, he will see the bench more in favor of Tommy Edman.