When posting back to our print partner, you will usually find instructions for posting in the job brief (inside the job) or also on the campaign brief document that may be inside your stationery parcel when it arrives.
Some campaigns ask for cards to be returned in platform order. This means that when your cards arrive, the team at the print warehouse have all of the customer gifts laid out ready to go and they can simply go alone the line and add in your beautiful notecard. If you imagine at Christmas for example, the print team had thousands of little teddy bear decorations to send out so it makes it super simple to have everything in order for them to add your notecards.
To keep cards in order, your pack will contain what's known as a 'belly band'. This is a narrow strip of paper that gets folded or wrapped around the stack of cards in order to keep them together.
When using the belly band, you will find instructions on it for how to fix it and which is the right way up. The top of the pile should be the first card in the platform, then the second, third and so on. Then you can label the belly band if you have more than one stack.
E.g 1 of 2, 2 of 2
along with your name and job number info in case anything gets mixed up in transit.
In most cases you should use the packaging your stationery arrived in to return your cards to the print warehouse for fulfilment campaigns.