How to do a B&P

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Step 1 -- Communication

You e-mail me and I agree to make one or more duplicates for you in a B&P trade.

Step 2 -- The Blanks

Send me one 80 minute CD-R disc (not CD-RW) for each CD you want copied. I recommend you send them in paper sleeves rather than in jewel boxes to save weight.

Step 3 -- Your Trade List

Make up a slip of paper with your name, e-mail address, and a list of the CDs I'm doing for you.

Step 4 -- The Envelopes

Please note, that is envelopes, plural. Doing a B&P takes two envelopes.

The first envelope is the inner one, which should be padded. That one will be addressed to you, and will contain the blank CD-R discs and your trade list. Don't close it! The padded envelope will go inside a larger, non-padded envelope addressed to me.

Step 5 -- Postage

Take both envelopes to the Post Office. Have the padded one, with the discs and your trade list inside, weighed and put the right amount of stamps on it (don't use a meter strip, they're only good on that date). Don't close it! Put it inside the larger envelope and have that one weighed and have postage put on it, too.

Seal it up and mail it off.