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Posted at EST by Jessie @MoolaSavingMom 4 Comments 25 Apr
Sometimes there is a nice coupon that comes out that I don’t plan to use but I still want it in my coupon stockpile just in case- but printing it out will cost me money in paper and ink. Since I don’t really NEED or want that coupon right now- instead of printing the coupon – get it mailed!
This is not always an option but many times it is! Here is a little video tutorial in getting it mailed to you instead of printing at home!
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THANKS SOOOO MUCH..my printer has been acting crazy and sometimes I can’t always print ..this is great info to know..thanks again
Thanks, Jessie!!!
I guess it is good advice if you really are having printer issues, but if not, you are being somewhat dishonest and what you are really doing is shifting your printing cost back to Bricks, plus adding mailing and postage cost for them on top of it. If lots of people do this, it will further increase the cost of offering coupons, and likely reduce the availability for everyone.
I also think mailed coupons could be just as traceable to you as printed ones. Bricks can still put a serial number on the mailed coupon, and they have your address from your request. So if gave the coupon to someone and they misused it, it could still likely be traced back to you.
Here is my better advice, although you need a little technical savvy. If you have printable coupons you don’t know for sure your will need, print them with your printer turned off (or offline). The coupon will still generate and then go into your print queue, waiting for the printer to be turned on or put back online. Now BEFORE you turn on the printer or put in online, go into the print queue, find the print job just generated, and PAUSE it.
You now have the coupon generated and ready to print out if you ever want it in the next 30 days (or however long the expiration date is). If you end up wanting to print it, just Un-Pause it, and it will print whenever you turn on your printer or put it online. If you decide you don’t want it at all, just cancel the print job from inside the print queue, the same place you paused it – and it will never print.
The only tricky part about this is if you have a lot of these paused coupons in your print queue, they will likely look all the same with a document name like “Coupon print 001”, etc. Which means you won’t know which one(s) to Un-Pause if you decide you want to print some. To solve this issue, you either need to edit notes on the print job to describe it so you know which coupon it is, or similarly keep a manual list of the date/time stamp to identify them.
Just remember, the 30 day expiration time begins on the day you generate it into the print queue, not the day you eventually print it out. Also, I have seen some people’s computers/printers for whatever reason don’t generate a print queue. If that is your case, this obviously wouldn’t work.
I see your points and respect them. Many printable coupons do not offer this service and 99% of people will print the coupon right then.