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hey guys so welcome to this video slight change of format to the ones I've done previously basically some people have been in touch and asked me about collecting autographs through the mail and so I thought I'd put together this video which is basically my experience of through the mail autograph collecting give you a few tips and do's and don'ts things I think are really important and hopefully it might be helpful to somebody who's perhaps new to the hobby of collecting autographs and would like to get into it so hopefully we'll give you a few pointers and some directions to go in so so what I'm going to do is basically talk about kind of some places you can get autograph dresses from kind of the do's and don'ts for writing off to your favorite celebrities and bit hopefully give you just a quick rundown of the key things to remember from this point onwards when I talk about through the mail I'm going to call it TTM if you've seen TTM written anywhere before and you don't know what it means that's essentially what it means through the mail through the mail autograph requesting so I guess the first thing to look at is kind of way and get your autograph addresses from now there's a couple of places you can use I tend to use fan mail dot biz it's fantastic database of celebrity addresses pretty much any celebrity you can think of if you type their name in and I'm not talking about just actors and actresses I'm to talk about sport stars and sort of other notable people as well attacking the details in and you can basically find a current contact address for them if one exists now normally that's the agents address so you would normally write directly to the agent this very very rare you'll get a celebrity's personal address and actually if I'm honest I'm not one for writing to personal addresses I think it's a bit of an invasion of privacy and I wouldn't personally recommend it but if that's what you want to do that's entirely up to you but as I safe and milk business brilliant you type an address in every time someone gets a success on fan mail they will post that success and then it keeps the database updated so if they get a return to sender or whatever sort of negative response or failure then that will be updated to see or know perhaps if addresses have started to to not work any longer you'll have an update on that in the place you can use this star tiger which I put a tiny link to the bottom a small link there mainly because I've never used it before people tend to swing between fan mail and star tiger I've not used it myself but I've heard it's very useful but I've tend to be able to find pretty much every address I'm after fire fan mail dot biz anyway the other thing you can do if you want to get hold of addresses is you could always join facebook autograph collecting sites so if there's a specific celebrity or a specific TV show that you're after maybe you know perhaps by joining the facebook page you'll you'll have other fellow collectors on there who can kind of give you suggestions of the best places to go to you know and it might not just be collecting autographs through the mail it could be sort of such and such a celebrity's starring in a particular play in London and there they come out of the matinee at X o'clock and that's where you can stand with an autograph with the picture and get an autograph of you want one so so yeah fan mail drop is start are eager and and facebook pages of my tips on those there are other places of course there's loads of the places you could look but I'm not going to cover them or just just give me a few examples here so hopefully that's useful to you so so what do you want to do you found the address of the person you want right to but but now what now what do I do well I guess the first thing I would say you want to do is you want to write them a letter now I've seen lots of examples of celebrity through the mail letters some good some bad some downright ugly if I'm honest my preferred letter layout of choice is dear so whoever the person is I normally then start off the letter by saying how much of a fan of their work and a particular perhaps list of films or TV shows or whatever it might be accomplishments that you're particularly you particularly enjoy do you're particularly interested about so for example if writing to I don't know let's say Robert Downey jr. for the sake of arguments you might say I absolutely love the avengers movie I've been a fan of Marvel for years I thought iron man 3 was the best of all of the films nobody did surely he wouldn't say that and basically kind of thought of a better description flatter them a little bit let them know how much of a fan you of their work and how much you enjoy the stuff that they do i normally then move on to say something like I hope it's not too much of an imposition but I really really love it if it's possible to get a signed picture from yourself I'm a big fan and this would be a fantastic thing for me and then kind of round off your letter by saying you know wish you all the very very best for the future or if you're going to see them in a play for example mention that you're going to go and see them in a play and sort of let them know how much you really are a fan of their work and that's pretty much it and then round off with you you're sort of them kind regards or whatever at the end I think it's really important to write a letter that is genuine and honest but not to make it too long if you're writing letters that are beyond side of a for to be honest beyond about three-quarters of a sideway for you're probably writing too much these are very very busy people they don't have a lot of time to read your letters if you keep it short and snappy the likelihood is it's more likely they're going to read the letter if it's a long tome of a letter then the likelihood is they're just going to skip it maybe just give you a basic signature no nice personalization or anything so so you know make sure it make sure you write enough to them but not too much that it bores and then they stop reading the one thing I always suggest steer away from and I've seen lots of examples of this and to be honest I'm really not a fan of it at all there's a few excuse me I just touch the microphone as a few people on fan mail for example who print off letters which are basically dear blank I'm a big fan of your work could I have an autograph and then they just hand write the name of the person and I think that's so rude I would never ever do it I think if you go in to write a letter to somebody at least make it personal least make it show like you've put a bit of if effort into the letter but those are my tips on letter writing you know and if you've got any other thoughts on it please use the comment section below really you know add your own comments and thoughts and pointers to help fellow collectors the next thing is the postage this is always a big one the postage mostly autograph sorry request our request from my own country I don't tend to do too much overseas a question just because it's an absolute headache to get the postage and stuff right but what I'd expect is that you'd an envelope in with stamps on to personally right into and then you'd also put a self addressed and stamped envelope to come back to yourself as well if you're expecting the celebrities to pay for your postage then you're not going to get many replies if I'm being perfectly honest so you always need to make sure you have enough postage on your letter to come back to you with the autographs with the pictures that you've sent hopefully signed by the celebrity the reason I tend not to do so many overseas autograph collecting nowadays is just because it used to be quite as easy a few years ago used to get an international reply coupon which would basically cover the cost of sending back to an overseas country so I could send to a celebrity with an international replied coupon they'd exchange that for the correct postage and then they post it back unfortunately the Royal Mail in the UK has stopped doing international reply coupons this is no longer an option so getting hold of stamps for other countries is actually really difficult the few times I have done it I've tended to either do one of a couple of things I'll either put a bit of cash to cover the cost of postage in not really recommending this because cash in the mail is just a recipe for disaster the other thing you could do is try and find like-minded collectors to swap stamps with or buy stamps from so if you know it's collector who lives in the US and you live in the UK why not swap stamps with each other make it easy on yourselves the other option is buying from something like eBay i have bought stamps for france and for the u.s. before from ebay and that's proved really really useful and has helped me out massively in terms of some collecting that I've done so so yes so envelopes that will fit your items make sure you write please do not Bend on the envelope because your post you will think nothing of folding it in half and sticking it through your letterbox if you're really really sending stuff these really important and you want to make super sure that it doesn't get damaged put it in a hard backed envelope as well obviously that's going to cost you more postage because the bigger the envelope the more it's going to cost you to come back but make sure probably most importantly is put that return envelope in with your postage on you're much much more likely to get a response if you're including postage and the next thing probably probably the next key thing is including a photograph or an image this is really this really depends as what sort of collect you are as to what sort of image or item you're going to put in to be signed I normally tend to collect photographs so I'll send off photograph probably of somebody from the program a you know in character from the program that i'm writing to and hope they'll sign that but people send off DVD covers VHS covers newspaper articles magazine covers whatever it might be whatever you'd like signed send it the key thing here is do not send anything you can't afford to lose in the mail things go missing all the time from the minute you send them to the minute they get sent back to thy celebrity they can go missing somewhere if it's a super lee important item that's got a lot of sentimental value or a lot of real monetary worth then really think very very carefully before you send it because if you are if it does get lost nine times out of ten it's very very difficult to track these sort of items down what I normally tend to do is I'll either find a sort of a magazine or something picture that I'd like signed but the quality is never that good because it's on some magazine paper so what I tend to do and I'm not endorsing this tall I'm just saying it's what I tend to do is I tend to look for images online that I particularly like of a celebrity and then I'll put them onto a USB stick and pop down to my local asda other supermarkets are available and I use their instant print photo machines you plug the USB in select the images you want they print off sort of six by four so they're not particularly large but that's fine because i've got i tend to collect six by four images they're easier to print off because 6 by 4 is pretty much the only size that you can run off instantly from supermarkets but they're also cheaper to then post out and post back because it's smaller size envelopes so it does make life a lot easier yeah so so so those those are some useful tips you can obviously print off larger images but it's more difficult because of copyright and this is the big thing this is why i'm saying you know put in a bit of a caveat on to all of this is copyright you you shouldn't really just walk into somewhere and of copyrighted material it's very naughty tut-tut you shouldn't do it but hey we all have let's be perfectly honest and it's what I tend to do so so yeah so you know that's how i do my photograph printing there's loads of the places you can do it you know there's kind of like your snappy snap photography centers you might be able to print off larger images I have on occasion done online image printing when I want a particular image done on a four for example and get it sent back to me the post in a couple of days but again the cost is something to remember an a4 image through the mayor you know sent off through the mail to come back to you printed off online and sent back to you could cost four or five pounds an image in your local supermarket on a 6 x 4's probably around about thirty nine pence bit of a difference you know and you will find you sending out a lot of ward graph requests and a lot of time a lot of won't come back so think about the money you're losing each time you send one for the items that don't come back to you and the key thing is just to remember to wait you know there is no time limit on how long it'll take to get autographs back the longest I've taken to get an autograph is around about two years I sent off request to the lovely karen gillan who played Amy Pond in Doctor Who and it took a roundabout almost to the month two years to get a response from her other autographs have sent off and had a response back within a matter of a week it really does depend on the on the person whether they're in the country very often how often they check their mail today do they sign in bulk once every couple of months or every couple of years and it really does depend so you know there's if you're if you're all about the quick response and you bossy send off requests and then you're expecting a reply back within a matter of weeks you're not going to last very long in this in this hobby so be patient you know do be patient it can take time to get requests back and that's pretty much it i think those are the key pointers so so just to recap very very quickly write a nice letter find the address of the person you want to write you and make sure the address is still live make sure if it's if it's at a person's agent to make sure they're still linked with that agency before you send off to them write them a letter include postage to cover back your return include an image that you want signed you're more likely to get a response from somebody if you include a picture then if you just say could you send your own picture back to me let's just worth member that remembering that again and remember to be patient it can take time to get responses back so a little couple of things in just the tie up a little bit of self motion don't forget I have a website where I list all of my responses I've had back it's called celebrity signings coat UK is the web address you can see it on the screen and front of you I'll also put a little ink or some details to it at the end of this video as well and it's another thinking about it technically it's another way to look at what addresses are working what response to work because if I'm posting stuff that's come back to me the likelihood is that those addresses are still working so pop along have a look at who I've got responses from I've got hundreds and hundreds of responses and they're all listed here on my celebrity signings website the other thing you can do is please check out my videos on this YouTube page as well I've listed probably around about 20 or so videos now and each one can be have comments added to it including this one and can get some up votes or down votes if you don't like what I'm doing please let me know it's all constructive criticism but please have a look at the videos and sort of keep up to date on a month-by-month basis in terms of the the responses I've had that's it hope is proved useful please comment below if you like my videos please subscribe that'd be fantastic and hopefully see you next month for my next video hopefully having some great 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