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I just used these for my wedding invitations! They worked very well for me. Mine did require extra postage because they poked out the the envelope a little bit and my pocket folds were "too stiff". It ended up being $0.75 to mail each one. I did them to hold my pocket folds together, but not on the outside. I'd look into that more.
I think they require extra postage for anything that needs to be hand-cancelled. If the envelope is not flat it can hang up in the postage machines, and so they will charge you more. Although probably if you are doing something like sealing wax you want to pay the extra and specify hand-cancelling even if they think it might go through the machines, as the machines might crush or otherwise damage the seal. Not so nice if there are just little pieces of wax rattling around in the envelope.
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If you are sealing the outside of the envelope you need to hand deliver them to the post office and ask them to be hand-cancelled, otherwise they go through the machine, get messed up and kicked out, and then are hand cancelled.
Thanks guys. I will check with the post office how much is the extra postage.
was it the wax seal that made it $.75? or your invites were heavy enough to require the extra postage? I also want to add wax seals to our invites on the side of the envelope. and i went to get it weighed yetserday and the postman said that I should be fine with the wax seal. I have a square envelope so that's $.58.
Will the wax seal get crushed when going through the machine? Or is it just safer to get them hand canceled?
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Mine is $.58 to mail right now without the wax seal also. It's because of the weight, over 1 oz. I'm only looking to do the smaller seal, which is a little over half an inch.
The wax seal will crush or break when going through the machine. They need to be hand cancelled.
does it still need to be handcancelled if the wax seal is on the inner envelope, and the outer envelope is sealed normally? right now, that's our plan. does handcancelling cost anything extra?
Ever considered faux wax seals?
We checked out getting seals here: http://www.waxseals.com/ before we decided against them. They are flexible, won't bend, you won't waste envelopes with the screw ups that inevitably occur with the glue gun "wax", and you can get them customized with your initials, stars, celtic knots, etc. all in their standard colors or a custom color matched to your stationary.
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I went to the post office today with a sample of my wax sealed envelope. The girl that helped me said that it should be fine. No extra cost for hand cancelling. She said that for wedding invitations they usually set it aside and hand cancel them so the wax seals wont be ruined. But she also told me that not all post office will do that.
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We are thinking to use sealing wax from Paper Source to seal our invites. The kind that you insert into a glue gun. Does anyone have any experience with those? Will the post office mail them with no problem or will they require extra postage?
Also, is it better to create the seals first separately and then glue them to the envelopes or do it directly on the envelopes?
Thanks.