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Hand Cancelling invites

bridzilla Posted: May 28, 2004 12:20 PM+

bridzilla MEMBER SINCE: 12/03 TOTAL POSTS : 671 WEDDING DATE: Aug 27, 2004

Posted: May 28, 2004 12:20 PM

Hand Cancelling invites

I just came back from the post office, and they told me they won't hand cancel my invitations. If I want it done they will charge me 90 cents each!

I've never heard that they charge. So where do I go now? I don't want them ruing my invitations that I paid almost $800 for!!

I AM SO ANGRY!

Kra5hnburn Posted: May 28, 2004 12:24 PM+

Kra5hnburn MEMBER SINCE: 10/03 TOTAL POSTS : 740 WEDDING DATE: Feb 05, 2005

Posted: May 28, 2004 12:24 PM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

Go to another postoffice. People have had problems before where some post offices will and some won't. The one in Bethpage didn't charge me anything to cancel my STDs . I remember another bride posting that her post office charged her 4 cents per invite. You can do it, you just need to call around!

queenlizard Posted: May 28, 2004 12:27 PM+

queenlizard MEMBER SINCE: 11/03 TOTAL POSTS : 131 WEDDING DATE: Aug 08, 2004

Posted: May 28, 2004 12:27 PM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

I have never heard of this, what is it?

BMD'sPeanut Posted: May 28, 2004 12:30 PM+

BMD'sPeanut MEMBER SINCE: 4/04 TOTAL POSTS : 8723 WEDDING DATE: Oct 24, 2004

Posted: May 28, 2004 12:30 PM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

What is hand cancelling?

hbradio Posted: May 28, 2004 12:34 PM+

hbradio MEMBER SINCE: 11/03 TOTAL POSTS : 9836 WEDDING DATE: Apr 29, 2005

Posted: May 28, 2004 12:34 PM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

Posted by BMD'sPeanut

What is hand cancelling?

I think its when they hand stamp them instead of running them through the machine - to avoid crushing the bows or whatever within the invite.

By the way - you are looking smashing in your new suit!

paulandles912 Posted: May 28, 2004 12:36 PM+

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Posted: May 28, 2004 12:36 PM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

Try a different post office. Mine (in Glen Head) handed me a stamp and let me cancel them myself. It didn't take long and wasn't a big deal.

I would pay to have anyone do that...

JimmysBride Posted: May 28, 2004 12:37 PM+

JimmysBride MEMBER SINCE: 7/03 TOTAL POSTS : 10131 WEDDING DATE: Oct 09, 2004 WEDDING LOCATION: St. Agnes Cathedral

Posted: May 28, 2004 12:37 PM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

Um, yeah, they aren't supposed to be charging for that.

Try the Mineola Post Office, they did for me for my E-party invites with no problems at all!

Handcancelling also avoids those ugly black lines all over the envelope...

Salason626 Posted: May 28, 2004 12:49 PM+

Salason626 MEMBER SINCE: 12/03 TOTAL POSTS : 620 WEDDING DATE: Jun 26, 2004

Posted: May 28, 2004 12:49 PM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

i had no clue you had to ask for hand-cancelling & it really looks like a truck ran over all my envelopes! it was so bad that in the end we actually thought it was kind of funny (what else could you do but laugh?!)

jayidee Posted: May 28, 2004 01:02 PM+

jayidee MEMBER SINCE: 11/03 TOTAL POSTS : 205 WEDDING DATE: Jul 18, 2004

Posted: May 28, 2004 01:02 PM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

I asked my local PO (Union Sq) and he said I'd have to stand there and hand cancel them myself. I took them to the main PO on 34th and the manager did them for me.

july16bride Posted: May 28, 2004 11:16 PM+

july16bride MEMBER SINCE: 1/04 TOTAL POSTS : 124 WEDDING DATE: Jul 16, 2004

Posted: May 28, 2004 11:16 PM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

Merrick PO did it for me

Jax430 Posted: May 29, 2004 12:07 AM+

Jax430 MEMBER SINCE: 3/03 TOTAL POSTS : 7653 WEDDING DATE: Jun 27, 2004

Posted: May 29, 2004 12:07 AM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

After hearing about a bunch of places that wouldn't do it, I had no problem getting it done at the main post office on Staten Island....try another PO. Good luck!

JZNCK Posted: May 29, 2004 07:38 AM+

JZNCK MEMBER SINCE: 9/03 TOTAL POSTS : 4152 WEDDING DATE: Mar 12, 2005

Posted: May 29, 2004 07:38 AM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

wow, that's not right.. The post office (in georgia) did my STD's, for free, and I didn't even know what she was doing, but now I know..

I would definately try somewhere else.. you want your invites to look the way they do now, that's the reason we spend SO MUCH $$$ ON THEM!!!

GOOD LUCK

nov2004bride Posted: May 29, 2004 12:21 PM+

nov2004bride MEMBER SINCE: 8/03 TOTAL POSTS : 4661 WEDDING DATE: Nov 05, 2004

Posted: May 29, 2004 12:21 PM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

I don't know where you live but I know Bohemia and Ronkonkoma PO's let you hand-cancel. You have to stamp them yourself but they don't charge.

palebride Posted: May 29, 2004 01:17 PM+

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Posted: May 29, 2004 01:17 PM

Re: Hand Cancelling invites

smithtown also lets you hand cancel them.
we asked to do them ourselves to make sure they were done right. i was afraid that they would say 'sure, we'll hand canel them' and then after we left, run them through a machine!
it takes a little time, but it's worth the effort...especially if you spent so much on the invites themselves!!!