Hi everyone. A lot of you may not recognize me - I haven't been around much in the last few years, but I used to be incredibly active here. Anyway, I have an important question for all of you: Do you have a pony inventory list? If you don't, I highly recommend you take the time to make one and back it up to a cloud service.

We lost our home in a house fire last month. I lost over 600 ponies, most of which were G1 and early G3. I also lost my desktop computer and external hard drives. I have one small hard drive left, and I'm hoping I had my inventory list on it. If you didn't know, after a fire you have to inventory every item in your home, in as much detail as possible, for your insurance. It's incredibly daunting and there's no way to make sure you list everything. Unfortunately my collection was in a part of the house that was a total loss. There's nothing left to go off of except my memory, unless I can find that list. And for the record, even areas that don't burn can be a total loss due to heat and smoke damage, so don't rely on hard drives alone!

So please, please, inventory your collection!! Update it often. Be detailed (pony name, condition, price paid, etc). I used to have my collection inventoried in the PonyDex (does anyone here even remember that??). That site no longer exists, so I wouldn't rely on a website unless you host it yourself. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who has experienced this type of loss, but I hope I'm the last. Hope you're all doing well.

I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but I'm making my first real "For Sale" thread and I want to be sure I'm quoting shipping properly.
If I ship Priority Mail, it doesn't matter the weight of the item? Is that correct? So say a medium sized bubble envelope with one doll in it would be $6.95, and a large bubbles envelope with 2-3 dolls in it would also be $6.95. Or have I completely misunderstood the USPS website and the Shipping thread stickied at the top?
Also, would it be better to use the Priority Mail boxes and envelopes I see in the Post Office? I've heard they are free - is that right?
I really appreciate any help with this. My postal workers are very patient but also very busy and I don't want to go in there and hold up the lines trying to understand this.