I don't know if it's just me or if others have had this problem too. I just want to get it out.
I sent my Save-the-Date cards out at the very beginning of May (5/3/14) through USPS. So far, I've had three returned for unreadable addresses.
I'm not sure what about them is "unreadable". I have somewhat neat cursive handwriting that is easily legible (and by others besides just me). Is everything read by a machine at the post office? Do people not read cursive anymore?
I took the time to write each address myself for all of the STD cards and having them come back is not fun.
What really gets me though is that I had one come back yesterday. YESTERDAY! It's been floating around in post office limbo for three weeks. The kicker? This person lives in the same apartment complex as me. I know their address is 100% accurate. I visit them regularly. I even watched their cats two weeks ago. I KNOW their address (and wrote it properly). I wanted to send their STD through the mail because it's more formal and who doesn't like getting mail? Sure, I could have walked it over to them, but that's beside the point. The funny part is that it made it back to me and I have the same exact address as they do except with a different apartment number, so if it can find me, why can't it find them?
It's really quite ridiculous. The others I know are accurate as well and they've just come back because they were "unreadable". If I wasn't worried about their privacy, I'd post pictures to show you. Still, I can post a sample of my writing, right? (It's not a great quality image, but you get the idea.)
Am I crazy? Is my writing that bad? Yes, I know there are mistakes in it, but I did it quickly and didn't want to fuss with it too much. I took care and time with these envelopes. I just don't understand.
"They say there's no such place... as Paradise. Even if you search to the ends of the Earth, there's nothing there. No matter how far you walk, it's always the same road. It just goes on and on. But, in spite of that... Why am I so driven to find it? A voice calls to me... It says, 'Search for Paradise.' " - Kiba, Wolf's Rain