Who would have thought that an expensive mistake could be UNDER paying for something?<br />
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Before you put a single stamp on an invitation, take one down to the post office and ASK how much postage will be required. Very often, if your invitation is oversized or overweight, it will cost more than a standard stamp. Likewise, if you have any international addresses, you need to ask about how much postage you'll need for those as well. Stamps.com: Print postage right from your PC. Sign up now and get FREE postage and a digital scale!
In addition, if your invitations are on any kind of custom made paper that varies slightly from invitation to invitation, bring several samples with you to weigh at the post office to insure they're all the same (My husband neglected to do this and ended up having to remove ALL the stamps and put new one's on EVERY envelope! We used handmade envelopes, and each one was a slightly different weight. As it turned out, the one he had "tested" weighed less than an ounce, while almost ALL of the others weighed more. What a nightmare!).
If you don't check on this, there's a good chance that you're going to end up getting returned invites with big ugly insufficient postage stamps on them a couple of weeks later and will have to redo all those envelopes - and waste money on more stamps (not to mention the fact that the invitations will then show up late!). To avoid this, I also suggest you NOT drop all your invites in a mailbox, but instead personally drop them at the post office and ask them to PERSONALLY mark each "postage paid" for you.
Finally, DON'T send out your invitations "bulk mail". Bulk mail can take up to SEVERAL WEEKS to arrive, and is less reliable than first class mail. It's also more likely to be thrown away because it looks like JUNK.
Who would have thought that an expensive mistake could be UNDER paying for something?...
In addition, if your invitations are on any kind of custom made paper that varies slightly from invitation to invitation, bring several samples with you to weigh at the post office to insure they're all the same (My husband neglected to do this and ended up having to remove ALL the stamps and put new one's on EVERY envelope! We used handmade envelopes, and each one was a slightly different weight. As it turned out, the one he had "tested" weighed less than an ounce, while almost ALL of the others weighed more. What a nightmare!).
If you don't check on this, there's a good chance that you're going to end up getting returned invites with big ugly insufficient postage stamps on them a couple of weeks later and will have to redo all those envelopes - and waste money on more stamps (not to mention the fact that the invitations will then show up late!). To avoid this, I also suggest you NOT drop all your invites in a mailbox, but instead personally drop them at the post office and ask them to PERSONALLY mark each "postage paid" for you.
Finally, DON'T send out your invitations "bulk mail". Bulk mail can take up to SEVERAL WEEKS to arrive, and is less reliable than first class mail. It's also more likely to be thrown away because it looks like JUNK.
Who would have thought that an expensive mistake could be UNDER paying for something?...
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