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That's awful. The holidays are a terrible time to have the post office barking down your neck since they're busy and stressed themselves. Seems strange that they couldn't have given him a stamp and asked him to move to a corner table and do it there, then get back in line when you're done. Most postal workers have no problem with doing that. However in speaking with a number of postal workers, they say that despite something being hand cancelled, it still has to go through other machines. It just skips the first in the long line of them. So really you don't save it from going through the machines despite what some folks say.
I just don't get the appeal of hand cancelling but that really sucks he got yelled at!
They let him stamp the STDs himself, but they wouldn't let him take the stamp off to a corner... so basically he was holding up the line while he stamped :-(
I'm sorry but i don't quite understand- what is "hand cancel" are you canceling your save the dates?
why would you need to hand stamp them? Why couldnt you do that at home? Why couldnt they do it? Sorry but i kinda feel the pain of others in the line as I have to stand in the line at UPS ~4 times a week and although I am pretty used to the wait it still bugs me when people take up time at the counter because they werent prepared with an address, the right tender, etc. I wish sending things was more streamline haha. Usually i just bring my ipod because its guaranteed to take some time but some people freak out at the time some people take, esp if its lengthy at the lunch hour when everyone wants to get in and out.
I'm not trying to say you/your FI were wrong, just saying ive been on the opposite end and can feel that pain. hehe.
sorry about the hand canceling pain! we spent a lot of time on our STDs and there was no way I was going to have a big nasty mark on my cards! it's a hassle but it's worth it.
everyone needs to have a little more patience. i do a lot of shipping myself, but i would certainly not be yelling at someone who is running his/her own errand. it's the holidays!
I am glad you posted this. I really want to hand cancel... but will be mailing this week and wasn't even considering the holiday crowd. I will have to go to a less busy place or skip it =)
@Miss Saphire: We just received a STD card from a friend in the mail, and it was really beaten up. We wanted to hopefully save our cards from that fate by hand cancelling instead of sending them through a machine.
@snake -- "Hand cancelling" just means that your stamp is cancelled at the post office by hand (so that the stamp on the envelope can't be reused), instead of the normal way, which is done by having your envelope sent through a machine. The machine can damage the card, so we didn't want to risk that.
I know how much it sucks to stand in a long line at the post office, but patrons also have a right to deal with their business at the post office without being yelled at by the people in line. This experience was extremely frustrating for my fiance, and he was pretty upset when he got home that people couldn't just be a little patient.
Im sorry that happened. I probably wouldve been one of the frustrated ones too, BUT if I wouldve known he was hand canceling STD's I wouldnt have minded :) At least if you hand cancel your wedding invitations (which your FI will probably make you do now!) it wont be during the holiday season so you shouldnt get too many annoyed people :)
Hand cancelling is cool, but your cards will be put through a machine if they go outside your local area anyway. They're not just processed on your end at your post office, but are sorted by the parts of the country that they are going to, and as part of that process go through machines that may scuff or mark them. It's unfortunately, but all our hand-cancelled invites ended up with machine marks except those that were sent to other people in Seattle.
@cherrypie -- Yeah... it's ok. We kind of knew that, but we figured that if we could at least avoid one of the machines by hand cancelling, then it might be worthwhile. After all of the nasty yelling at the post office though, I'm not sure sure :-(
eek-- I feel bad for your fiance. I must admit though, I probably would have been annoyed in line too (although I have better manners than to yell at strangers!). I agree that the problem really lies with the post office who doesn't have some provision for people want to hand cancel without holding up the line... but honestly I think the solution would probably be for the post office to just not allow it. People understand taht mail gets scuffed up.. I'm sure people wouldn't think less of you if your STDs were a little scuffed.
I agree that it sucks he got yelled at (I'm not sure when common etiquette became so uncommon) but as a heads up to other brides, the holiday season's probably not the best time to hand cancel a bunch of envelopes. Things are incredibly busy at the post office as is.
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My fiance almost got killed by a lynch mob at the post office while he hand-cancelled our save-the-dates!
Sorry... this isn't a question or a poll or anything, but I just wanted to share. FI just went to the post office to send out our STDs. I told him to hand cancel the post cards, which he did. But all of the busy and stressed out people in the post office who were trying to send out their holiday packages and didn't want to wait in a long line started yelling at him :-(
He just came home all stressed out, and he is worried that the hand stamp got really smudged on a lot of our STD postcards b/c he didn't have any time to let the stamp dry with all of the yelling that was going on.
Seriously... people need to have a little patience sometime. On a positive note though... Our STDs are now in the mail!!!!