Hand Stamping..

CKJ906 Posted: Jun 12, 2006 01:22 PM

Hand Stamping..

Invitations...what does this mean?
You don't just bring them to the post office? Can someone explain this to me please, I saw a post on this in the past

patticakes Posted: Jun 12, 2006 01:24 PM

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Do you mean hand canceling? This means you just don't put them in the mailbox at the post office, they do each one by hand. HTH.

Tommylove Posted: Jun 12, 2006 01:32 PM

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Posted by patticakes

Do you mean hand canceling? This means you just don't put them in the mailbox at the post office, they do each one by hand. HTH.

.....but, that still doesn't mean that they won't be put through a machine and could get damaged. There is always a possibility of this, so I've been told and realized after some of my guests Save The Date's arrived crushed.

patticakes Posted: Jun 12, 2006 01:53 PM

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Wow-really? I was told that the Hicksville post office does a great job.

RadioLau Posted: Jun 12, 2006 01:58 PM

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I brought them to the PO to get hand canceled and they did a wondeful job. (Centereach)

LaurenluvsTJ Posted: Jun 12, 2006 02:01 PM

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I didn't do this, and my invites arrived just fine.

SuzBride Posted: Jun 12, 2006 02:04 PM

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Posted by RadioLau

I brought them to the PO to get hand canceled and they did a wondeful job. (Centereach)

me too - Hauppauge.

I didn't do it for my RD invites - so we will see how they arrive (I got lazy )

evnme Posted: Jun 12, 2006 02:05 PM

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they let me stamp them myself at the merrick PO.

Boston&NY2006 Posted: Jun 12, 2006 02:09 PM

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Posted by LaurenluvsTJ

I didn't do this, and my invites arrived just fine.

Same here...

If you have bulky invitations (with bows or other lumpy attachments) hand-cancelling is a good idea, but it's not really necessary IMO if they're normal (as mine were).

CKJ906 Posted: Jun 12, 2006 02:55 PM

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Oh ok thanks girls!
Does anyone know if any of the post offices in Nassau do this? Near Mineola?

R&J0806 Posted: Jun 12, 2006 03:19 PM

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go into the post office and get the little circle stamp that has the date and town you're in on it. they'll probably make you do it yourself. but this prevents the invites from getting crushed b/c they are not going thru a machine.