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Hand Canceling - Invites

Original post by akaMrsT

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My local Post Office is just awful and full of misinformation. In addition to all the problems I have had over the years, I was told this morning when I went to retrieve a package that they do NOT hand cancel mail and that everything goes through the machines Now I know that is NOT true since not all mail can fit in the cancellation machine or the sorter machine.

So, after I was lied to this morning, I decided to track down the postal worker who flirts with me all the time He told me to bring in my invites on Saturday and he will personally hand cancel them and make sure they do NOT go through the sorter

ETA 1/23/06

I dropped off 4 straggler invites today and was told it's .90 each to hand cancel (A clerk and her supervisor told me that). And that THEY RUN THEM THROUGH A MACHINE ANYWAY to spray on the bar code for sorting Not sure if it's the same machine that cancels the postage Maybe there is a way to turn off that feature since I doubt they send mail through two separate machines to cancel postage and then do bar coding

So what is the point of hand cancelling

ETA 1/24/06

My invites WERE NOT hand cancelled and they went through a machine (to cancel postage, to sort) possibly 3 TIMES

akaMrsT Thread views: 4,301

Re: Hand Canceling - Invites

bumping for update

AlliNMatt06 Thread views: 4,301

Re: Hand Canceling - Invites

I had no idea what hand Canceling meant, so I asked my mother who works for the post office. She told me that they almost always Hand Cancel all invitations. It is just so they don't get wrecked in the machine. She didn't say it costs anything

akaMrsT Thread views: 4,301

Re: Hand Canceling - Invites

Posted by AlliNMatt06

I had no idea what hand Canceling meant, so I asked my mother who works for the post office. She told me that they almost always Hand Cancel all invitations. It is just so they don't get wrecked in the machine. She didn't say it costs anything

My P.O. is full of crap so I don't doubt that it's free. I did speak to an agent and then her supervisor, both told me the .90 story.

frosty Thread views: 4,301

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My PO didn't charge 'extra' for hand cancelling. I go in there fairly often and the clerk offered to hand cancel them when I brought in an invitation to be weighed for postage.

I guess it really depends on the PO.

May2004 Thread views: 4,301

Re: Hand Canceling - Invites

here's another link Hand canceling issues

CJStein Thread views: 4,301

Re: Hand Canceling - Invites

I had problems too....they hand cancelled them but once they got to the distribution centers, they added a bar code at the bottom of the invite....didn't look so good, but at least the inner envelope was fine.

So sorry you had to deal with this too!