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smplynluv Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:27 PM+

smplynluv MEMBER SINCE: 3/07 TOTAL POSTS : 1858 WEDDING DATE: Jun 14, 2008

Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:27 PM

Post office question...

What's the deal with 'hand canceling' the invites? I hear of ppl having to go to the post office to hand their invites in instead of just being able to put them in a mailbox. Is it cuz the invite is too big or something?

ETA: My envelopes are 6x6. Does anyone know if this is a problem?

Lucky0510 Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:28 PM+

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Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:28 PM

Re: Post office question...

it's so the invites don't go through the sorting machines and get destroyed. any type of bulge in the envelope (from a ribbon or buckle) will jam the machines and destroy the invite.

ETA: its called hand canceling HTH

angl2001 Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:28 PM+

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Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:28 PM

Re: Post office question...

hand caneling...you knwo when you get mail and the invite is stamped over? you can ask to do it by hand instead of gong thru the machine....people worry about the invites being ruined.....mine were fine except for a few marks on the envelopes....but they didnt rip or anything

madseason Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:30 PM+

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Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:30 PM

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many post offices have no problem - my selden one did mine - and she was so nice about it! Bring yours down and ask for them to be hand canceled

blaine08 Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:30 PM+

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Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:30 PM

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i went the other day. They made me put 75cent stamps on each. Then he gave me the ink stamper to stamp over them

smplynluv Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:31 PM+

smplynluv MEMBER SINCE: 3/07 TOTAL POSTS : 1858 WEDDING DATE: Jun 14, 2008

Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:31 PM

Re: Post office question...

So since i have flat invites and am using two envelopes I don't really need to worry about this? I can just distribute them to local mailboxes??

My envelopes are 6x6. Does anyone know if this is a problem?

madseason Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:33 PM+

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Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:33 PM

Re: Post office question...

They dont need to hand canceled - just have them weighed and make sure u have the correct postage and u are good to go

smplynluv Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:35 PM+

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Posted: Mar 28, 2008 10:35 PM

Re: Post office question...

Posted by madseason

They dont need to hand canceled - just have them weighed and make sure u have the correct postage and u are good to go

Ok good good... yeah I think I read somewhere that square envelopes pay extra

oh well, too late... yeah, when I go get my stamps tomorrow i'll just double check that they'll have no problem with that size.

Soon2BDoubleL Posted: Mar 30, 2008 07:06 AM+

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Posted: Mar 30, 2008 07:06 AM

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We had ours hand cancelled, the post office acted like it was a big deal and we were bothering them, but we told them we had all day and we would wait and... (shocker) it took a whole 5 minutes!!!!