Help! How does this work? Do I take my invitation to get weighed, buy the postage, go back home and put the stamps on them and then take them back to the PO to get them hand cancelled?
xosweetiexo
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So funny you asked this tonight bc today FH went to the post office, got it weighed.... bought stamps... then when I got home, we put them on...and tomorrow morning I will be going to the PO and asking them to please please hand cancel my invitations.... I hope they do it
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Help! How does this work? Do I take my invitation to get weighed, buy the postage, go back home and put the stamps on them and then take them back to the PO to get them hand cancelled?
That is how I did it...
Sweeteey51
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sometimes even when you hand cancel it it will still go through the machine i hope you all know that. My best friends friend works in the post office and she told me this. They dont care lol.
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That is exactly it. We went, had them weighed, bought the stamps, went home and put them on them, returned to the post office, and had them hand cancelled.
My friends actually took pics of the outside of the envelope and mine did not go through the machines.
meara
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yeah sometimes they don't care about hand cancelling. try to really chat up the person helping you.. and yes you just weigh one then buy stamps and take them all back.. most places will charge you more for cancelling you do them all at once.. you can avoid it often by taking them in in smaller batches
kristentinnelly
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This may be a dumb question....what is hand cancelling?
Celeste617
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Posted by Sweeteey51
sometimes even when you hand cancel it it will still go through the machine i hope you all know that. My best friends friend works in the post office and she told me this. They dont care lol.
I was chatting with a woman that works at the post office asking about hand canceling and that's just what she said - there is no guarantee.
elysemichelle
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FH and I took 225 Inviations to be mailed and they did them all right away for us, in front ofus. They even gaveus a stamp to help hand cancel!!!!!if you are patient, often they are too.
MLAngelo
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Thats how I am doing it.
MrsCtoB
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Hand cancelling means they won't (or shouldn't) put the invitations through the machine that give them that postage mark over the stamp or the little lines at the bottom. Keeps them looking fresh!
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Help! How does this work? Do I take my invitation to get weighed, buy the postage, go back home and put the stamps on them and then take them back to the PO to get them hand cancelled?
Yup... thats exactly how I did it but the PO made us hand cancel them and put them in the PO bins.
Nice job lol I paid almost $3.00 per box and the PO did ZERO work. FH was pissed lol
allegracristina
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We had them hand canceled at the Hicksville post office. They came out GREAT!
