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MrD, credits are worth the same on SwapaCD and SwapaDVD, and can be freely transferred back and forth with no penalty.

$0.98 is exactly what it costs to order two different CDs, so I gifted you 2 credits. Merry Christmas!

I mail single CDs as letters using medium weight chipboard for padding on both sides. For extra reliability I use bright yellow paper and stamp it with a red NON-MACHINABLE stamp. Ignoring materials, the postage cost is $1.10, which is 21 cents over the minimum of $0.89. I've mailed around 60 this way and every single one has arrived intact and undamaged. It's not unusual for people to send PMs thanking me for the "extra secure" packaging.

Amazon sells medium weight chipboard in packs of 25 12x12 sheets for around $12, which I cut into 4 pieces (2 mailers) each for a total of 50 mailers per $12.

Chipboard has a strong axis and weak axis. Here's a picture showing how I cut mine:

EDIT: I finally got motivated to post a complete guide to how I mail CDs using standard swapacd mailers. I'm very happy with how the mailers end up, and confident they'll arrive safely. Or, at least, as reliably as if I'd sent them in a bubble mailer, but at half the price. (Anything not machinable will end up with parcels, where your swapacd mailer or bubble mailer could have a heavy box of car parts dropped on it. So no matter what, your CD isn't 100% guaranteed to make it in one piece.)

Using standard swapacd mailers