You
may ask the clerk at your local Post Office to either hand cancel your
envelopes or allow you to use his stamp to hand cancel them yourself. If
the Post Office is especially busy at that time, please be considerate
and ask if you should return later. If you call ahead, you will be advised
of the best way to proceed. Some Post Offices will comply, some will not.
Try a small Post Office.
Once
hand cancelled, ask to have all invitations placed in a separate tray on
their way to the main Post Office in your city, and enclose a full page
note that says, “These beautiful Wedding Invitations are already
hand cancelled. Please be careful not to place them through the automatic
cancellation machines.”
Click
here to print out this note.
Some
things to think about when ordering your invitations:
Smaller
rectangular invitations travel better.
Oversized
and square invitations may be cancelled with magazines.
These
definitely need special attention.
Have
invitations sent to main Post Office with the note above in a separate
tray.
If
you have a large number of invitations that will be mailed to one community,
take them to that Post Office and ask if they can sort them without sending
them downtown first. They do not have to do this but might...that's it
and good luck with the mailing.