Looking for your recommendations!
Our RSVP's are postcards. The postcard rate is going up effective 4/17. We are sitting on sending our invites out, waiting for the new .29 cents to be available (they were suppose to be available yesterday, however the local post office does not have them yet...and you can not order them on-line yet). We are at the 7 week mark until the wedding...so we are pushing it and don't have time to delay mailing. RSVP's are to be returned on 4/22...so we would need to ensure a .29 cent stamp is on for those that may send them back after 4/17. Would you:
- Go ahead and mail the invites with the .28 cent stamp currently available...and hope not to many folks send RSVP back after 4/17 AND hope the post office gives a grace period and lets them go thru?
- Would you add a .01 cent stamp to the postcard RSVP (would not look appealing)?
- Would you see if the post office could hand stamp additional postage (again, not really pretty)?
Would love your in-put!
Re: What would you do - Stamp Crisis?
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[QUOTE]cant you custom order 29 cent stamps? with your picture and stuff!! that would be cute. I don't know how that works though. Just ignore me. :-)
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If you are trying to go with the most-budget friendly solution, custom stamps are not the best choice, it costs a lot more than regular stamps. If you go with one 44 cent stamp, you are over-paying 15 more cents for each rsvp, so $15 more for 100 invites, and $30 for 200 invites. Part of the appeal of the postcard rsvp is that it is cheaper postage, I really think no one will notice/care about the stamp(s) on the back of your postcard. I would just rather put $15-$30 toward something else in my wedding, than on the postage, when you will have people who don't return it at all (thus <em>wasting the whole stamp</em>, not matter what the value), which irked me to no end, while handling my rsvps. Overpaying postage is just a waste of money, IMO. I would make sure I bought the cute 44 cent rings stamp for the envelope of your invitation, and that can satisfy the cuteness aspect, and just put the minimum value of postage on the rsvp. But that's just my 2 cents (hahaha).
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