For drivers · 5 min read · Updated October 2026

How Lunar Stickers Are Printed and Shipped: What Drivers Actually Get

Automotive vinyl circles, printed per campaign, mailed with a placement guide — what's in the envelope, how long it takes, and what to do the day it arrives.

A few days after you're matched with your campaigns, an envelope shows up: your stickers, one circle decal per door spot, printed for the exact businesses you'll be carrying, with a placement guide that makes the install hard to get wrong. It's a small package doing precise work — the decals are automotive vinyl (the removable kind, not the regret kind), each one printed per campaign rather than pulled from a bin, and the whole flow from print to your mailbox is a planned leg of the four-week campaign launch. Here's exactly what you get, when, and what to do with it.

What's actually in the envelope

• One circle decal per filled spot — up to four for a four-door, each printed with the brand matched to that spot. No generic stock: your set is produced for your campaigns.
• A placement guide: where on each door the circle sits, cleaning and application steps, and the do-nots (no heat guns, no application over damage or fresh paint).
• That's it — deliberately. No frames, no tools required beyond a clean cloth; the decals apply by hand.

The material, honestly described

The decals are automotive-grade vinyl — the same material family shops use for removable graphics — chosen for three properties in this order: clean removal (they peel without residue when warmed, which is the whole removal routine), weather survival (rain, car washes, UV, and a Vancouver winter or a Tulsa summer are all within spec), and colour fidelity, because the local businesses paying for your doors deserve to look right on them. What they're not: wraps, magnets, or anything permanent. A decal that's been on for a full 3-month phase comes off in minutes and leaves paint that's been shielded, not harmed.

The timeline from match to mailbox

Printing starts once you've accepted a match and the business's 24-hour veto window has closed — it's the second leg of the launch pipeline (match → print → ship → verify). Production and shipping together typically take days to a couple of weeks depending on where you live; you'll see your campaign status move through it, so there's no mystery about where things are. Two timing notes worth knowing: design changes on the business side restart printing (rare, but it explains the occasional delay), and phase changes work the same way — when a 3-month campaign ends and a new brand takes the spot, the replacement decal ships to you on the same print-and-mail flow, timed so your doors aren't empty long.

The day it arrives: a ten-minute job done right

• Wash and dry the door panels first — vinyl bonds to paint, not to road film. A clean cloth and mild soap is plenty; skip waxing right before install.
• Follow the guide's placement — the circle positions are standardized so verification photos read correctly and the businesses get the visibility they bought.
• Apply by hand, smoothing from the centre out; small bubbles work out with a fingertip. Mild weather helps (vinyl likes 10°C+); a garage works fine in winter.
• Then the step that starts your earnings: take your install photos and submit them. Verification confirms placement, your stickers go active, and the money follows the verification from there.

Replacements, damage, and the occasional oops

Vinyl lives outdoors, so things happen: a decal gets keyed along with the door, a pressure washer at close range lifts an edge, an install goes crooked enough to bother you. The answer in every case is the same — flag it and a replacement ships; you're never left choosing between an ugly door and your active status. The weekly photos exist partly for this: they catch decals that stopped looking right, which protects both your car's look and the advertiser's brand. And when you leave a campaign or the program, nothing gets mailed back — removal is your ten-minute job, and the envelope's contents were always yours to peel.

The bottom line

What drivers get is deliberately unexciting: printed, removable automotive vinyl, shipped free, applied by hand in minutes, replaced without fuss. The interesting part is what it represents — real local businesses paying real money for the doors of a verified, real car. The envelope is just how that marketplace reaches your driveway.