Consideration should be made as to how often, if ever, the contents will need to be removed, or viewed.

Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Anything with this ‘plastic’ smell should be avoided, plasticisers (PVC) are usually added for additional flexibility. The emulsion can bond to polyester, in this case you are better to use an archival paper enclosure, or interleave with acid-free tissue.The static charge is very light, it can be increased by rubbing with another piece of polyester if required. Putting them in sleeves would be easier than laying them in an acid free box interlaced with acid free paper. It can, however, damage friable materials such as gouache, pastels or charcoal works of art on paper.

You can put multiple letters in a folder (by year or month depending on how many you have) without interleaving if they are stable. The metal desiccant can be reactivated in a conventional oven only, the plastic desiccant in a microwave or an oven. Some say put them in polyester sleeves others say that will increase the acidity being inside plastic sleeves. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. Letters that are fragile, brittle, or breaking at the folds can be put into polyester sleeves for safer handling. American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM). Sleeves – Sleeves are more accessible than a pocket allowing slightly easier insertion or removal of weaker papers or photographs. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case.

Importantly - Archival polyester doesn’t contain plasticisers – you will know well the smell of plasticisers given off by PVC from items such as shower curtains.

Please take your time browsing our fine selection of sleeves below, and contact us with any questions you may have. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions. Supportive protective enclosures include: acid- and lignin-free buffered folders, flat boxes with lids the same depth as the base, and stiff boards for "board-setting" (sandwiching neat stacks between preservation-quality boards and securing the sandwich with broad strips of poly strapping or strips of bookcloth fastened together). We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.

Outside of standard A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, paper, postcard sleeves, print, certificate, poster and newspaper sizes (we’re already notching up a number of variables here) there are items that just won’t fit into pre-fabricated pockets, or require something bespoke. For personal newspaper collections and newspaper clippings, digitization following digitization guidelines used for manuscripts and similar cultural heritage materials makes more sense.We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. Some may refer to archival polyester film as ‘Mylar’ or ‘Melinex’ which are brand names owned by material manufacturer Dupont. The Northeast Document Conservation Center has put together very useful technical leaflets on storage enclosures for paper items as well as a list for Conservation/Preservation Supplies and Equipment — Archival Supplies. Taking care when handling any collection item, especially large format, poor-quality paper items like newspapers, is one of the more effective, cost-efficient, and easily achieved preservation measures.