So… Remember those wax seals I mentioned towards the end of
my last post? Yeah… we did them, but now they’re taunting us. When I first went
to the post office to have the invitation weighed to see what kind of postage
it would need, I didn’t seal it, I just took a test seal that I peeled off an
old piece of paper and stuck it in the envelope. I figured that as long as it was
just in there, we would still have an accurate measurement of how much it would
weigh. The guy told me a 44 cent stamp would be fine and I thought nothing else
of it… until I went to the post office today to mail the invitations for those
who are coming from out of state. I thought, just to be SURE we have the right
postage I would just weigh them again and double check. Well… turns out that
putting that wax seal makes it “non machineable”, and that means that the post
office can now charge me an extra 20 cent (each) to send them. Plus add an ugly
little red stamp that says non machineable on my perfectly addressed envelopes!
So here were my options: I could buy 100 20 cent stamps to add to the 44 cents that is already on ALL of them—did I mention we’ve already stamped and addressed ALL the invitations?? Yeah, I thought we were getting ahead of the game, turns out we got so ahead we went in a circle. Anyway, this 20 cent stamp is ugly. For one, it’s much smaller than the stamps we have on there now, and second, the ONLY one they have is a picture of George Washington. Sorry George, you’re not invited to the wedding. So option one was out. My second was to just buy 100 64 cent stamps and take off all the 44 cent ones that were on there.
So here were my options: I could buy 100 20 cent stamps to add to the 44 cents that is already on ALL of them—did I mention we’ve already stamped and addressed ALL the invitations?? Yeah, I thought we were getting ahead of the game, turns out we got so ahead we went in a circle. Anyway, this 20 cent stamp is ugly. For one, it’s much smaller than the stamps we have on there now, and second, the ONLY one they have is a picture of George Washington. Sorry George, you’re not invited to the wedding. So option one was out. My second was to just buy 100 64 cent stamps and take off all the 44 cent ones that were on there.
So I just finished peeling off and saving 100 44 cent
stamps. And you can bet that I’m going to find some way to use those suckers, I
don’t care if I have to glue them on the thank you notes—no way I’m wasting $44
in postage. I just hope they don’t raise the cost again before we send them
out. Stinking post office.
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