Bonus if you take a finished invitation with you so that they can weigh (check for postage costs), measure it (envelope vs parcel) and give you exact instructions for their mailing process The “handbook” for hand canceled invitations must be pretty vague at USPS, because each post office seems to have it’s own little nuances about their process. Now for this step, I HIGHLY recommend visiting your local post office and asking them what their policy is. It’s like the white glove treatment (or as close as they will get) at the USPS. Anything that you want to keep pristine and beautiful should be hand canceled.
Honestly, I recommend hand canceling all of your fine stationery. Well, my darling, I’m so glad you asked! Here are a few of my favorite solutions: Solution 1: Hand Cancel Okay, so now that we know that the main problem is with the machines-how do we avoid it?
So adding the extra width can cause some problems, even so much as to make your “envelope” a “parcel” in the eyes of the postal service (which simply means that it’s more than 0.25” thick). A thicker envelope, on the other hand, is already making a tight squeeze through the machine. We’ll talk a little more about why that is later, but for now just know that a thinner envelope isn’t as much of an issue. Even the exact envelope that I’m sharing in this post went through the mail-no special system or precautions made-and it came through JUST FINE. But when you add a wax seal-it’s like a bolder being thrown into the path! It can get caught in the machine, tare envelope or even rip the wax seal right off! Now, in my experience thinner envelopes (something with just a card or invitation in it) are usually okay as long as you are using quality materials. This applies to handmade paper, vintage postage, oversized envelopes, etc. The problem arrises when you step away from their standard envelop. Makes complete sense! Brilliant on their part to create a machine that is a streamlined, faster way to cancel postage than to do it one at a time. When we mail stationery through USPS, the envelope is sent through a machine that “cancels” the postage for us in order to pay for the delivery service being performed-basically inking over the stamp so it can’t be removed and re-used. Let’s start with WHY wax seals can cause problems in the mail: Canceling and Sorting Postage.
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