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Hand canceling

tegdirb2001tegdirb2001
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When you go to the post office to ask if they will hand cancel...do you offer to help them?  Do you sit there while the do them all or just drop them off?  I will be going in to do this on Friday or Saturday and I am hoping I have a person that is ok with this and doesn't get grumpy at me for asking.

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Re: Hand canceling

  • aligrossaligross member
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    edited December 2011
    Good luck with this... I went in and asked about it (at a couple different Post offices ) and they all informed me that they would not do any hand canceling over 50 invites - I was super frustrated, and just put the stupid invites in the mail. I offered to help them out and they told me "no" !
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  • PoliceWife104PoliceWife104
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    edited December 2011
    Ditto Annie.

    I asked about it & was just told, we don't do that.  So I just let it go.  We had kraft paper envelopes & didn't have any issues with them getting messed up in the mail.
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  • graysquirrelgraysquirrel member
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    edited December 2011
    I was under the impression that I would have to rubber stamp them all myself, but they were happy to do it for me. They just took the box and told me that they'd do it. Just go at a time when they aren't too busy if you can, not a time when everyone is on lunch or just getting out of work. 
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  • tegdirb2001tegdirb2001
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    edited December 2011
    I work with someone who's husband works for the postal service and she asked him about this. He said that is their job to do what you ask for postal services. They should not complain or say NO. My co-workers husband offered to take them for me and do them and send them out.  I will try on my own first and if I get a fuss about it...I will bring to him and he told me to tell him about my experience also.

    If you think about it...it's their job!!! 

    The reason I want them hand canceled is because the calligraphy is all the way to the bottom of the envelope and the lady @ the PO told me that the sticker will cover it up and that the postal reader will have to un peel to read where to send.  This was when I was buying stamps and didn't think I was going to hand cancel. Now I want to.
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  • quincygirl77quincygirl77
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    edited December 2011
    All I can say is the employees at the Diamond Lake Station (Nicollet Ave. S. and Diamond Lake in south Minneapolis) are the nicest people.  I went in expecting to have a problem and the didn't even bat an eye when I asked for hand canceling.  They gave me the stamp and had me move down to an empty window/desk to do it myself.  I had about 70 to do and it only took me about 10 minutes or so.  Try this station if you are having any problems :)
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  • jenn920jenn920
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    edited December 2011
    I went to the Eden Prairie post office (behind Michaels) and hand-canceled them myself.  It was super quick and easy.

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  • maybe984maybe984 member
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    edited December 2011

    It depends on the post office. I took half to the one on Old Shakopee Rd in Bloomington, and they were quite cheerful about doing it, and asked me if I wanted an extra stamp to help. The next day, I took another batch to the post office in Maple Grove and they told me, "no, we won't hand cancel" but then she told me our invitations wouldn't fit through the machine-thingy that does them automatically... so they'd have to be hand done anyway. When I said "well, what's the difference, then?" she shrugged her shoulders, grabbed my box of invites and walked away.

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  • leggwilliamsleggwilliams
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    edited December 2011
    We had to call around to several different post offices before we'd find one that would even allow it (and most that allowed it wanted to not only charge extra but we had to put an additional weird looking stamp on it...hello, if I'm hand canceling it I obviously don't want the envelope marked up) but finally found one that did it for us. We did ours in Sauk Rapids (just outside of St. Cloud) and FI just dropped them off and they took care of it. Totally worth the hassel though because the envelopes and invites were flawless when they showed up
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  • kidlets2kidlets2
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    edited December 2011
    Ok...I'm clueless. What's hand cancelling?
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  • MaggieandJakeMaggieandJake member
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    edited December 2011
    I had thought about hand canceling and even asked my dad about it (he's a letter carrier), and in the end decided it wasn't worth the stress or time.  I did tri-fold pocketfolds with a belly band and they went through the mail without a problem.  I sent one to myself, prior and then also saw my parents and few of our friends' invites after we sent them out and they arrived in perfect condition.  
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