Re: Hand canceled inviations

there should NEVER be a fee for hand canceling, no matter how many envelopes you have-the post office is federal organization and there should NEVER be a difference in what you are charged from one office to the next-otherwise you would be paying 40 cents to mail a letter at one office and 50 cents at another..and ALL post offices will hand cancel envelopes-it not only looks nicer, but when envelopes go through a machine they often get damaged..

ive asked fh about this a thousand times, bc he is a post office supervisor, and ffil has been in charge of almost every district in nassau the city and jersey at one point or another

Re: Hand canceled inviations

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Posted by paprika023

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Posted by springsandra

I feel like I just typed this somewhere else... but why not again...

When you send a letter, the stamps have to be cancelled so people don't just peel them off and use them again. Usually this is done with a machine that all the envelopes are sent through that prints marks on the envelope and across the stamps.

Since these invitations are important to us and we don't want extra marks all over our fine calligraphed envelopes (mine were printed on the printer and i didn't really care, but i didn't want them smushed either), we can request that the post office 'hand cancel' the stamps. They physically will use a rubber stamp on each envelope to make sure no one can use your stamps again.

Hope that helps!

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ooooooh, that makes a lot of sense!

thank goodness for LIW.. I never realized how clueless I was with wedding stuff lol

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LOL good thing someone asked what this was and thank god i now know

Re: Hand canceled inviations

Yeah, at the end of the day, I didn't care. I'm just happy they got out!! It's one of those things that people who receive the invitations never bother to notice. So here's to less stressing!

Re: Hand canceled inviations

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Posted by springsandra

I went with my 90 invitations to the main PO in Brooklyn and the lady was happy to have them hand canceled for me, just not right then. She took the boxes and promised they'd be done and mailed by the end of the day. I took a deep breath and let them go... and by the next day local people had their invites already. It didn't cost me a cent. Hopefully your post office is as efficient and trustworthy too. Otherwise you'll have to go back with smaller batches because no one is going to hand-cancel 130 invites in front of you at once... at least no one in Brooklyn would. Good luck & let us know how it goes!

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The same thing literally happened to me two weeks ago, except for 101 invites at the Oceanside post office. I brought them to the post office in two boxes and had even organized them in numerical order by zip code (yes, I'm that anal retentive). I was really scared to leave them there, to the point where I was going to ask him to hand cancel them in front of me. However, local people in Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk had the invites in hand less than 24 hours later (dropped them off at 3 pm on a Thursday, got a text from my aunt in Lindenhurst at 12:30 pm on Friday that she had my invite!).