Save as Stationery unavailable in Mail

I customized a stationery template that I had imported into Mail. Now I want to save it as a template, but "Save as Stationery" is greyed out in the File menu. Is there something I'm missing here? I've saved it as a draft, but want to use it multiple times.

Thanks, Gary, for the interesting idea but it won't work for me because the stationery I am trying to create contains a twenty address Bcc as part of my stationery. (That's the real reason I need this particular template). Following your instructions, I created a good "future" template and was just about to push the send button when I realized that twenty people will be getting a blank email from me. Not good as that tends to lower your "Sender Rating" with friends. ;-)
I don't know why this is so hard for Apple to do for us? Eudora did this so elegantly ten years ago.
It is virtually impossible to make an addressed template with an signature in Apple Mail. How wimpy!
Any ideas would be dearly appreciated.
---Gary (G)

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