I went to two post offices today (New Hyde Park and Great Neck) and was told that it does not matter if I hand cancel my invites --all the mail (except local) gets sent to Flushing where everything goes through the machine!
Does anyone know anything about this? I thought the whole point of hand cancelling was so that they didn't go through the machine...
kimmiekakes
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I would like to know alittle more about hand cancelling as well.
kbeana24
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me too - what exactly is the difference? Ive heard it looks better, but how?
suebride
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i thought that if you got your invites hand cancelled than they would not go through the machine --but the people at the post office said that is a big misconception --supposedly all the mail now has to go through a machine --it is all processed by machine in Flushing...
i am wondering why no one else has heard this too???
kimmiekakes
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Posted by suebride
i thought that if you got your invites hand cancelled than they would not go through the machine --but the people at the post office said that is a big misconception --supposedly all the mail now has to go through a machine --it is all processed by machine in Flushing...
i am wondering why no one else has heard this too???
Posted by kimmiekakes Oh so it is suppose to get the red mark on it?
yes, when you cancel the postage --you stamp it with red ink so that no one can use the stamp again...but today i was told that they get put through the machine anyway and get that black barcode on the bottom of the envelope
anjerandunder
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okay i'm in trouble..i've never even heard of this..if my envelopes got stuck in the printer they are definitely getting stuck in some machine..oh boy let's just hope they get there in one piece!!
suebride
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anjerandunder --when did you mail yours? i am getting married a week after you --i just picked my invites up last night...
kimmiekakes
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I'm getting married a week after you, suebride and I'm sending my out by the end of next weekend.
We also picked ours up last night.
anjerandunder
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i'm mailing mine tomorrow..i can't wait to have this tedious chore overwith
eta: i should be working on them right now but i'm obviously not
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Posted by kimmiekakes Oh so it is suppose to get the red mark on it?
yes, when you cancel the postage --you stamp it with red ink so that no one can use the stamp again...but today i was told that they get put through the machine anyway and get that black barcode on the bottom of the envelope
While it's true that all mail (even hand cancelled mail) goes through a machine for the destination barcode, hand cancelling diminishes the chances of your envelope getting ruined because the envelope is run less often than regular mail. At the most, it would get run 2X (for the front bottom and back bottom) as opposed to over 4X regular...so if you have thick envelopes (like me), it's best to diminish your chances of ruining them.
