OMG! Just nearly had a meltdown in the post office (i am generally stressed and PMT-ed and ragh today anyway and this has nearly just broken me!) Just went to post my save the dates - they're cute little things, about 11 x 7.5cm in size, Id spent hours writing out the envelopes in nice calligraphy style writing and was really chuffed with them! But as they were a little thick (just on that stupid 5mm borderline of whether theyre a letter or large letter) I thought Id better check before sticking on the stamps Id already bought. So I hand one over at the counter to check and despite being little and easily small enough to fit in a letterbox it was hit and miss as to whether they fit through the 'standard letter size slot'...Phew I think, glad I didnt waste 40 stamps, and just about to buy some large letter stamps when she goes 'actually, I think theyre too small to post'.....WHAT?! apparently recommended minumum size for postage is 9 x 14cm - really?! did anyone else know this? So she said she couldnt accept them over the counter, and did that whole 'well you could take your chances and put them in the letter box but because theyre small they might not get there' thing. I phoned Royal Mail and they said the same (obviously) but they also said Royal Mail do not intentionally destroy any post that CAN be posted....as far as I'm concerned the address is perfectly nice and clear, I havnt written it in miniscule writing, and the correct postage will be on them so Im really tempted to just post them anyway and see what happens. Might do a few and see if they get there....the woman at Royal Mail just kept saying if its too small it wont go through the machinery correctly (far enough) and that theyll have to be hand sorted - tbh I dont care if they have to be hand sorted, even if it does mean theres a small delay in getting them there. TBH because of the calligraphy style writing its unlikely their machines will be able to read them anyway so theyll have to be handsorted anyway.
But what the hell! All that time spent writing, and putting our little date stmap on the envelopes, and licking the gross envelope glue for nothing?! and they'll look stupid having an envelope within an envelope....AND THEY'RE JUST NOT REALLY THAT SMALL! im really out of proportionally peed off at this!
So yeah, word of warning for those who also want to send out little post! x
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