When you sent out your invites did you...

bettybcafe Posted: Apr 25, 2007 05:25 PM

When you sent out your invites did you...

hand cancel them yourself, or did the post office people do it??

The reason I ask is because yesterday I went to send out my invites and I told the teller I would like to hand cancel my invites myself..and she gave me a look like she didnt know what I was talking about...so I explained to her what hand canceling was... ...and then she says 'Oh, they do that automatically at the main post office in the Bronx'...is that correct? I always thought they got hand canceled at the post office where you dropped them off at.

AlliCatB Posted: Apr 25, 2007 05:27 PM

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I just handed the postman two boxes of invites and he took off with them. No idea about hand canceling?

bettybcafe Posted: Apr 25, 2007 05:32 PM

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Posted by AlliCatB

I just handed the postman two boxes of invites and he took off with them. No idea about hand canceling?

2 boxes!!

charisma Posted: Apr 25, 2007 05:44 PM

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what is hand cancelling

bettybcafe Posted: Apr 25, 2007 05:46 PM

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Posted by charisma

what is hand cancelling

..you place the stamp on each invite urself so that they dont get ruined through the machine...something like that..Im honestly not to sure about it myself

bella62307 Posted: Apr 25, 2007 05:48 PM

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I asked them to be hand cancelled and the lady handed me the stamp and said the line was too long so i would have to do it myself... haha .. so i said ok i will do your job for u and i did it myself :)

Bride4Mike07 Posted: Apr 25, 2007 05:51 PM

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nope, just sent them to the post office w/ the stamps, had the clerk check for the postage, sent them through.....

dawnbridetobe Posted: Apr 25, 2007 06:15 PM

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From what I gathered hand cancelling is manually doing the mark that goes over the postage (those wavy lines). It is usually done by a machine, but you can hand stamp it so the machine is avoided. I believe hand cancelling is done at the post office you drop it at (thats what mine did) but he took them and did it after the office closed(atleast he promised to). Either way my invites all arrived perfectly!

Marchbride07 Posted: Apr 25, 2007 07:03 PM

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When I sent mine out they handed me the stamp and I did it..>I didn't trust the post men/women...LOL

That being said....I saw some of the invites that got sent to my close friends and fam and even though they were hand stamped, some were smudged or had a tracking sticker placed right over the name or address..>LOL so you can't win!

dancerandchef Posted: Apr 25, 2007 07:57 PM

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Wow, I did not know what hand canceling was. I am learning something new every day.

~dancer~

Erica48 Posted: Apr 25, 2007 08:17 PM

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the guy at the post office told me to just leave them and he would hand cancel them, lets hope they get done!!!

Unapearla Posted: Apr 25, 2007 08:49 PM

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when I went to drop them off the lady in the post office said she would hand cancel them herself (she was sooo nice).

Danacm80 Posted: Apr 25, 2007 08:55 PM

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when i dropped them off the guy said he would have people hand cancel them.. i didn't mention anything.... if they didn't though i would have.

Athee07 Posted: Apr 25, 2007 09:11 PM

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they wouldnt give me the stamp because they said they werent allowed so i asked them to do it and they did

PegaLega Posted: Apr 26, 2007 12:43 AM

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They hand cancelled them for me...they all came out fine...tho we got ALOT of them back for NO reason PO people said 'use a legible font' uuuuuuum I DID!!!

KMTree Posted: Apr 26, 2007 02:26 AM

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This may be a little dumb, but I thought to be fun, we'd send our invitations to a town like Bliss, or Bridal Veil Falls, or Fidelity to be hand cancelled rather than have them cancelled with our regular hometown on them. I saw something on CBS about it and you can get a list of towns that have names like that across the country that will do it for you
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/10/ap/strange/mainD8N722F00.shtml

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1516918&lastnode_id=0

GiJoe07 Posted: Apr 26, 2007 07:11 AM

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Posted by KMTree

This may be a little dumb, but I thought to be fun, we'd send our invitations to a town like Bliss, or Bridal Veil Falls, or Fidelity to be hand cancelled rather than have them cancelled with our regular hometown on them. I saw something on CBS about it and you can get a list of towns that have names like that across the country that will do it for you
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/10/ap/strange/mainD8N722F00.shtml

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1516918&lastnode_id=0

I like that idea!!

rojerono Posted: Apr 26, 2007 07:15 AM

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I asked for them to be hand cancelled and the girl said no problem and took the invitations to do them herself. Which worked out great for me because I wanted no part of it!

DrWho Posted: Apr 26, 2007 08:19 AM

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The guy at my post office hand cancelled out STD postcards, which was very nice of him and completely unneccesary (since they're A - STD's, and B - postcards). I figured some bridezilla must have gone in there and raised a ruckus at some point.