If you re sending outside of the United States, this requires International Reply Coupons, which can be gotten at the post office. IRC s are confusing to everyone except those people in the dim, dark past who invented them, and international postage is so expensive you re almost always better off to ask Edna to just destroy your manuscript if she doesn t buy it. One IRC will also return 6. Your self-addressed post card. That s the one you include in your package to be dropped in the mail by the publishing house when they receive your material.
Some writers place the synopsis before the manuscript, some after.
I always place mine after in the vain hope Edna is so enthralled by the manuscript she never gets to the synopsis. Place the whole shebang in an envelope big enough to hold it all without deconstructing. If you re using the post office, they offer Tyvek Priority Mail envelopes free of charge. You can send manuscripts Special Standard rate, but Priority is recommended. It s faster, and the free envelopes don t hurt anything, either.