We use these for several purposes. We have two home-based businesses. One is sewing & these are large enough to mail single items orders. The other is a beauty pageant. We use these to mail our paperwork for upcoming pageants and to hand out score sheets at the end of each of our pageants. They're great for that purpose when someone forgets to pick up their scores we just add the address & postage and in the mail they go. These envelopes are also large enough to hold the contestants' photos and makes for easy return at the end of our pageants.
I picked up these Sustainable Earth Envelopes in order to have a shipping envelope for media mail. They work beautifully. I would recommend Staples and this product to any of my friends. When I compared price on the Sustainable Earth envelopes compared to the standard manila colored envelope that I once used the price was actually lower for the Sustainable Earth and the package allowed for a more attractive number of envelopes in the Sustainable Earth packaging. I can find no down side to using the Sustainable Earth envelopes.
I entered Staples expecting to purchase standard manilla envelopes. I was pleased to find these green alternatives. Though the color is more brown than what one might expect from manilla envelopes they serve the same purpose. My only disappointment with the product is that Staples did not offer a smaller size in the store. A quick check of the on-line catalog shows that 6"x9" envelopes are available - though they were not in stock at my store. The smallest size available in my store was 9"x12" - they also had 10"x13" in stock. I am in the process of ridding myself of the boxes that were used to ship software and moving the contents each box to a manilla envelope. These "Green" envelopes suit the purpose perfectly.
These envelopes distinguish my business from other businesses because they are colored different from most clasp envelopes making mail and paperwork from my business easier to recognize.
The only thing I worried about was the color. I wanted the receiver to realize the contents were important. I was afraid the "brown paper bag look" might get lost in the shuffle.