Hand Canceled?

I'm mailing my invites today!!
My mom is heading to the post office soon... but what does 'hand canceled' mean??!?!?

I've seen people mention that when sending invites but I dunno what i means!

help!!

It means having them handled manually instead of having them go through machines.

if you have a square invitation, they are hand cancelled regardless cause the machines can't handle the size...

Its supposed to mean that rather than the invitation going through the machine (and you get those lines at the bottom, plus creasing of the invitation), they just stamp the invitation.

However, when I went to the post office, the first one told me there's no such thing, and the second one said sure, but when the people received the invitations, it had those lines on it anyways... So who knows...

Thanks ladies!!!

I litterally just called my mom and she was at the post office talking to the guy!!

phew! caught her in the nick of time!