Don't Mess With Me, Postal Service

Aside from a few RSVPs, I've had my invitations pretty much done and assembled for months now. I've got to tell you, after pain-stakingly cutting, gluing, stamping, gluing, cutting, and addressing 70 invites, you want to get them out and begin gathering compliments as soon as possible. And yet, it was just a smidge too early to mail them, so they've been sitting in a drawer. Two weeks ago, I was all geared up to go buy stamps, when I heard the announcement: Regular stamps will be 42 cents from now on. The one-cent increase is more of a rude (albeit necessary) inconvience, but it adds up quickly. (That's $1.40 for you mathematicians—hardly worth mentioning.)

But what really got my goat was that they wouldn't be selling the wedding hearts stamps again until June 10. That meant, I had to wait even longer to send my beautious invites to our family and friends and make it really really official. Or, as my mother pointed out, I could just use the Liberty Bell stamps, but that doesn't say "wedding invitation" and was not part of my plan. This is an aside, but to add to my misfortune in 2007 the wedding hearts stamps that I needed were purple and matched my wedding colors perfectly. This year, they're green—strike two against the US Postal Service.

At long last today is the day I was promised (twice, in fact) that I would be able to grace the San Francisco post office with my presence—and my debit card—in return for my stamps. I was half-expecting them to tell me that they didn't have them in stock yet, but much to my surprise they were fully stocked, and had enough to meet my invitation and RSVP needs. They're not as perfect as last year's stamps, but they'll do just fine.



Is anybody else mailing invitations soon? What kind of stamps are you using?