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Metered postage for invitations?

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edited September 2014 in Wedding Invitations & Paper
My family operates a bank. Because of the mailings that they do, they have a postage machine. I would be allowed to use this machine to quickly weigh and stamp my invitations. Because they have a bulk mail permit, postage would also be less. I'm sure you've seen the metered stamps. They're red ink with a circle with sending location, eagle background, and a square with the postage amount in them.

I'm not set on doing this, but wanted to get some general thoughts on the matter. It's just an option that's available to me.

Do you think this is tacky for wedding invitations?

I have inner and outer envelopes, which I have hand-addressed. The wedding is not very formal, but still traditional. Our ceremony is at a church and the reception is at a brewery with a Texas BBQ buffet for dinner. Plain flag stamps or other generic stamps would probably be used as the alternative.

Please offer additional thoughts in the comments!

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Metered postage for invitations? 16 votes

Yes, this is so tacky and cringe-worthy! Don't do it!
6% 1 vote
Eh. It might be tacky, but I wouldn't care so much.
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No. Who cares what the postage looks like as long as it gets where it needs to go?
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I have no idea if it's tacky or not.
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Re: Metered postage for invitations?

  • Of all the invites and regular mail I receive on a daily basis I never once look at or even notice the postage (actually I did notice one postage stamp and that is because it was a Harry Potter postage stamp and I am a little obsessed with HP).  When I get a piece of mail I say "oh look it has my name on it" then I rip it open.  That is the amount of time I take to look at an envelope.

  • I picked the "who cares" option. I don't give a shit what the stamp looks like. If it arrives in my mail box and is correctly addressed to me, yay!

    FWIW, we sent postcard STDs and all the post office had for postcard stamps were hawaiian shirts, so I bought 150 of them - oh well!! When I went to mail, postage had gone up 1 cent and I had to stick on extra 1 cent stamps. The only 1 cent stamps they had were black with a tiffany lamp. So my STDs had hawaiian shirts and tiffany lamps. No one said anything. 
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  • As long as you can use the business meter for personal use I say go for it. I could care less what stamp you use. I totally side eye the frivolous fools who fall for the scheme of paying extra to have a personalized postage stamp with their pic on it...must be nice to have money to burn.

    I used postcards for response cards to save on postage. Don't forget to meter your response envelopes too! :)
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  • As long as you can use the business meter for personal use I say go for it. I could care less what stamp you use. I totally side eye the frivolous fools who fall for the scheme of paying extra to have a personalized postage stamp with their pic on it...must be nice to have money to burn.

    I used postcards for response cards to save on postage. Don't forget to meter your response envelopes too! :)
    I have used the postage meter for other things before, and everyone in my family as well as other employees of the bank who ask permission do too. I think this is how everyone stamps their Christmas cards! Not sure it's 100% right, but everyone does it. I am sure it's fine, or at the very least that they will let me reimburse the bank. I used regular sticky stamps for the response cards. I had them on hand and it made things faster to put together because of that. I couldn't finish assembling the invitations without the postage and I only have access to the machine when I visit my hometown this weekend, 4 hours away.

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