Re:Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale
by cammasmith on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @10:33AM
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Cool idea. I can see you guys doing well in the wedding industry. The price seems steep, but I appreciate the transparency of your pricing. It's refreshing.
I think you're right about that. I was coming at it from a b2b saas perspetive, but not everything should be shoved into that box. I guess I spend too much time on x. What do you think is a fair price for something like this?
I charged that much to gauge interest and considering it's a very manual process rn, but I think I can get it down with some automations.
Re:Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale
by cammasmith on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:42AM
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I think the price would need to be closer to $4 or $5 per letter for me personally to recommend it or consider it. My SIL just sent out wedding invitations with stamped seals, and I think she would have paid $5 per letter to mail 50 envelopes. But at $8 a letter, I start thinking about how I can pay someone to print the cards and I can buy a wax seal at Hobby Lobby myself.
Re:Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale
by thaumasiotes on Saturday April 18, 2026 @01:56AM
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> but I appreciate the transparency of your pricing
I appreciate a different aspect of the pricing page. I love that the "what's included in every letter" feature table includes a checked listing for "hand-applied wax seal". The whole site is very clear that this is the selling point, so in some sense the listing of this feature feels "obvious". But I like the emphasis. It has a similar feeling to Led Zeppelin giving a concert and choosing to include Stairway to Heaven.
From an old Mack Reynolds short story. The recipient is receiving a message from an alien space station, but doesn't have the alien's message machine, just a decoder.
Seal Ready
Stamp-Emblem Ready
Number One Paper
Strike: Embossing Master Emblem Number Two
**** Border
Begin Message
From: Commander Space Fortress Ironclaw�
To: Commander Unidentified Damaged Warship
Sir:
Your ****-signal received and acknowledged herewith. This is the correct
signal for the ****. However, we require the following information:
1) Who are you?
2) What is the name of your ship?
3) What are the circumstances surrounding the **** of your ship?
This information must be forwarded at once, or we must refuse entry.
Stand off while replying.
Cordial claw-claspings,
Gratz Ialwo,
Commander Space Fortress Ironclaw
Fold Message and Glue Shut
Stick Seal
Stamp Great Claw on Front
Eject
Re:Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale
by nebula8804 on Saturday April 18, 2026 @03:15AM
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How do you center the wax consistently? How about regulating the amount? I used to send wax stamped envelopes as new years letters to friends but have stopped because both the pour method and the glue gun method don't ever seem to produce consistent amounts or proper placement of stamps. Maybe I just haven't made enough to get good at it...but there must be a better way.
Do you have a video of how your Peltier setup works? Sounds interesting!
Re:Making Wax Sealed Letters at Scale
by unsnap_biceps on Saturday April 18, 2026 @03:30AM
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How are you crafting the stamps? 3d printing them so they're a negligible cost?
Why use AI generated pictures for the letters? Lot of the site wording is clearly AI too, but the pictures of final product are the most important aspect.
I'm genuinely asking, since it just makes the site look untrustworthy. The only thing balancing that are the real pictures of the peltier stamp process.
Anyway, I wanted to test if this could be a WSAS (Wax Seal as a Service). It would be so cool to have an excuse to build an end-to-end automated process for custom wax sealing. Please hit me up if anyone wants to try sending out a few, and I'd love to help.