Papyrus

Never do business with a dishonest sales receptionist.
I came in to buy a card and went to pay at the reception desk. While completing my purchase, the cashier asks me for my email and phone number randomly. I provided it in good faith just because… then she asks for my address and I knew something was fishy.
I asked her «are you signing me up for your club membership.» She looks flustered and confused. I told her to immediately stop and to not sign me up for whatever she’s doing.
I check my email today and I find a «Hurry to redeem your first Perk!» welcome email. This bitch… «baht poh»…八婆 if you are reading this Asian clerk signed me up without my permission.
You don’t trick people to sign up. Just stop. You come there to buy cards and gifts — that’s all. You earn loyalty and membership through great service: that is not the case here.
Don’t buy cards from bad businesses. I never leave 1 star reviews, but you can’t give credit to bad and dishonest practice.

My go to Papyrus store whenever they have their annual clearance sale. This store may be tiny but they have more clearance merchandise than the Embarcadero and Montgomery stores. Trust me, I scout all the Papyrus’ in the vicinity whenever they have their clearance sales. They are also the only store that offers 75% all sales merchandise. I hit the Embarcadero store and they only had the ugly Jonathan Adler reject stuff for 75% off. All the other stuff were only 50% off. So yeah, come here for the best selection and deals!

Conveniently located next to Embarcadero and Montgomery BART stations. I went yesterday at 8:30am exactly and they were open on schedule. The girl there is friendly and helped me choose a v-​day card.

Papyrus has the best greeting cards! You can never go wrong going here. Most locations are the same. Customer service is always great and you always find the prettiest cards for almost any occasion.
And my absolute favorite thing to do is go after Christmas to snag up their holiday card boxes for 75% off!

The cards are very dull. The employees are not very helpful. I walked around the store twice and no one asked if I needed help. Very bad service

This store has been closed as of May 2009. It was great, no it only was.

What’s the best gift for a coworker who loves to keep notes on her colleagues in hopes that it will pay off big in the future? Answer: a journal!
Papyrus has beautiful journals, cards, gift bags, calendars, book markers. Everything imaginable to fulfill your stationary needs. They are a bit more pricey than other franchise stationary stores, but worth it for their quality.
Now my coworker won’t have to keep tabs on everyone using her office desk calendar.

Store reopened, literally a month after closing! I love having a card store so close to work.

If I was a pen, I would fall in love with papyrus cards.
If I was a candle I would burn bright to light up the love that shimmers from Papyrus cards.
If I was a Poet I would dedicate my life time to making up cute rhymes for Papyrus cards.
If I were to jump off the top of a building I would do it only for Papyrus cards… OOO wait, I probably would not go THAT far. But papyrus is my love.
You can get lost in this store for hours, not becuase it is a large store but becuase it is a store filled with paper goodies! They have the most wonderful cards and the best part about you’re card buying experience is the heart melting gold stickers that they give you to close your envelope with! Hallmark watch out papyrus is going to bight you in the butt!
The service is great! And if you spend $ 10 dollars to join their membership team you get great discounts. for example, if you buy 2 cards you get one for free. We all like free!

My grandma raised me to send cards for every holiday, to always attach a card to any gift of any size, and to send a thank you note to anybody who so much as looks at me.
So card shops are pretty essential for me.
And I’ve been buying cards here for about a year, mainly because it’s a few blocks from my office and I can pick up something on my lunch break. Their cards are a little fussy for my taste, but they’re clearly not from a drug store, which is all I really want.
Today, though, I went in to grab a few cards for birthdays, Easter, an anniversary… it’s amazing how one birthday can turn into six or seven cards.
I bring my lovely stack to the register, and the girl ringing me up asks if I’m in their club. I forget what she called it, but it’s one of those deals where they sign you up and you get free stuff in exchange for letting them spam you to death. Maybe it’s financially stupid, but I never join those things. Nice register lady let it go, but then another lady, who seemed to be in charge, came over.
She asked me if I was in the club as well, and I told her I was not. She stared at me for a second, contempt all over her face, and said, «Do you know you could have gotten two free cards today?». I just smiled at her. Even if I had wanted to join this thing, I had two more stops to make before I even got to the lunch part of my lunch break. But I didn’t feel the need to explain myself to this woman, who was looking at me with intense dislike. And who proceeded to turn to a man, who seemed to be sorting receipts, and say, «That’s crazy. She’s crazy.»
Um, hey, Bitch? You’re standing about three feet away from me. I can hear you. And now I’m really glad I didn’t join your goddamn card cult, because I’m taking my stationary obsession to Crane.

I am so not about cards with fabric butterflies on them and a shoe made out of ceramic super glued to a plain white card that’s blank inside. But Papyrus is just hard to resist… it has all the things you don’t need to send someone a card to say hey — but has everything you need to send a card to someone to say hey! and ‘I don’t mind spending $ 9.43 on one card for you!’
The reason this Papyrus gets 3 stars is because they have sales sometimes that bring the prices down to normal and it’s a great place to buy gifts for the the kind of people that are ridiculously hard to buy things for — namely your rich friends who already have everything so you buy them picture frames (insert picture of you two getting drunk together), or journals, or stationary.
I think the bigger Papyrus stores in the city might deserve more than 3 stars — but really, you could also just go to Flax (on Market and Valencia) and make the same card for a few bucks less.

Papyrus came to my aid in my hour of need! I am a procrastinator extraordinaire, and I waited until the last possible minute to order the invites for my recent engagement party. I was terrified that I’d face enormous rush fees, etc. Not to worry. Papyrus stocks a delicious assortment of every type of card and invite that you can imagine, all custom printed within 24 hours. Granted, there are some limits on colors, styles, etc, but there was plenty of selection to meet my needs. The staff knowledgeably assisted with the proper wording and layout. The proof was faxed to my office the next day and the final product ready shortly thereafter. No rush fees! They even included a Papyrus discount card.

I love giving and receiving… cards. I love the feeling of giving someone a completely appropriate card that they might actually save. Papyrus makes finding good cards easy — forget Safeway and Hallmark. For beautiful handcrafted cards go to Papyrus.
The cards aren’t cheap but when you get a call from your Mom saying how much she loved the card and how it’s now in a scrapbook it’s worth it. If you join the Perfect Card Rewards Program for $ 10 every time you buy any three greeting cards, you get one free. I stock up to avoid scrambling.

Even though I did not find the photo album card that I was looking for, I give this place 5 stars for the service. The woman there gave me so many options and showed me around the store. Very friendly and helpful! I will be back!

Even *closer* to the bart/​muni station than the Papyrus in embarc 2 — this is the PERFECT place to stop on your way to an event to buy something «thoughtful» plus the taxis are crazy easy to catch on Pine if you are heading west… keep in mind — the prices are crazy high, you’ll probably get a better deal with the packaged cards than the individual ones… think ahead and buy a bunch — you won’t be sorry!