Royal Mail- BIG grumble! GRRRRR!!!!! >_

I share your frustration! We posted our invitations mid November & still some haven't been delivered!! I'm so pee'd off with RM, but I have another month or so to chase up the replies before the evening ones go out (holding off sending these in case we get chance to bump some evening guests to day guests) and possibly even have to make some more and resend for the people who haven't had anything!

Wedding planning is just on big stress after another - FACT!!

Hope you manage to get it all sorted & have all your guests there on your wedding day! xx

Right back at you my lovely! I hope yours are all delivered soon too! it's bad enough this time of year when christmas cards aren't delivered and people think you're rude, but with wedding invites it's a whole different, maddening ball game!

Aw that's so annoying! Two of our guests didn't either - my grandad (on my dad's side) and my uncle and auntie and cousins (on my dad's side)! So it looked a bit like I didn't want to invite my dad's side of the family haha. Really annoying as I only realised when they both mentioned to my dad that they hadn't received anything.

Man alive!!! if i wasn't peed off before!!!...... another cousin has messaged saying she did get her invite BUT that she had to pay extra postage on it. they're all the bleedin' same!!!!!!! >_< so how have some people's gone missing, some people got theirs no problem all with the same stamps and some people not got enough postage!!!???????!!! they're the same size and weight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if i were a cartoon, steam would be coming from my ears right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh no. I'm going to check up on some of mine now after reading this. Bloody RM.

I've heard of some people separating their invites and posting them using different post boxes in case this happens. They wrote a list of whose was in which bundle so if they heard that one hadn't arrived then they could get in touch with others from the same "bundle". I think after hearing that and also this post I'll be doing that too as it seems to happen all too often.

Hope you manage to get it all sorted xx

I had a similar situation! my MOH didn't get hers. so i asked my mum and FMIL to ask if everyone received them!

Do your invitations have any "sticky-out" bits like bows/beads/cut-outs that make them thicker than a normal "letter" should be? Sometimes some post offices are stricter than others and will insist on something being a "larger letter" if it's just a tiny bit too thick. Those sticky-out bits can also rip through the envelope in posting and then not be delivered because they're damaged.

Was just about to ask what Helenia asked. It must be very frustrating for you.

Did you take them to the post office to get them checked as to whether they were a normal or large letter? If so, and they said normal, that is rubbish.

The problem is that the sizes are officially decided at the destination office rather than the posting office - so the destination office have the power to decide it's a large letter and add a charge accordingly.

It is often the thickness rather than the size that causes it to become a large letter.

Really hope the rest have arrived ok.

snap!

Really sorry to hear about this. The wedding invite from my best friend got lost in the post and l am still gutted! ☹️ Don't suppose any of them live in the Chelmsford area? Some people at work were telling me their now ex-post man is being prosecuted for stealing post!

I am meant to be posting our wedding invites in the New Year so maybe l need some kind of posting strategy...

WKS

They also often only randomly check weights/sizes, especially this time of year when the post office is working overtime.