regular postage or hand cancel ? Please help!

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Posted by FDNYwife1029

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Posted by rosatemp

ok i wanted to hand cancel and they wouldn't do it and some of mine ended up coming back or lost in usps heaven so i say hand cancel each and everyone cause the machines suck and they sometimes eat your mail!!

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why wouldn't they do it for yours???? Rude!

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my fault i went to the grand central station one so my guest could get them the next day...sucks they are so damn rude in that place

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Posted by Ang9483

does hand cancelling cost extra?

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i went to a post office in manhattan... the guy charged me 5 cents for each envelope after the first 50.

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Posted by FDNYwife1029

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Posted by rosatemp

ok i wanted to hand cancel and they wouldn't do it and some of mine ended up coming back or lost in usps heaven so i say hand cancel each and everyone cause the machines suck and they sometimes eat your mail!!

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why wouldn't they do it for yours???? Rude!

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The post office worker (and her equally apathetic supervisor) told me that 'the post office no longer hand cancels mail. That is an old practice that is no longer done.'

When I complained to her supervisor's boss I was told that they would hand cancel that batch of invites as a 'courtesy' but that it was a one-time deal, as hand cancelling no longer exists. Complete BS.

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Posted by rosatemp

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Posted by FDNYwife1029

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Posted by rosatemp

ok i wanted to hand cancel and they wouldn't do it and some of mine ended up coming back or lost in usps heaven so i say hand cancel each and everyone cause the machines suck and they sometimes eat your mail!!

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why wouldn't they do it for yours???? Rude!

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my fault i went to the grand central station one so my guest could get them the next day...sucks they are so damn rude in that place

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Oh my G! That's the same one I went to that told me hand cancelling no longer exists.

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Posted by FDNYwife1029

my invite is a 5 X 7 pocketfold invite. no ribbons or embellishments on it. very plain. do you all think i need to have them hand cancelled or can I just throw a stamp on them? will they get ruined?

please give me some advice... thanks!!!!!

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you still have to stamp them beforehand. hand cancelling is just to prevent one of the post office machines from putting those grey bar codes directly on them, which also happens to press and squeeze your invites in strange places. i went to manhasset post office and they let me do it myself. it's just an added precaution, but your invite will get to their destination regardless.