Wedding Invitations

This weekend we hurried to get our wedding invitations stuffed, and addressed. Today, my task was to go get postage for mailing out the invites, as well as postage for the postcard response card. Simple enough...right?

So, I leave work to go to the Post Office (which for some reason was super busy, with 2 older gentlemen there just to discuss the new stamps being offered...collectors I'm assuming?). Anyway, after 10 minutes in line, I get up to the counter and tell the lady I'd like to get some "wedding" stamps (you know, the ones with the hearts), to which she tells me..."We are backordered on those". SUPER!!!

I then pull out the invites, as well as the postcard response card to make sure the postage is what we thought it would be. Apparently not!! We were so freaking wrong it's not even funny.

My wedding invites are in 3inX5in envelopes. Apparently the minimum dimensions of a "letter" envelope (which could be mailed with 42cent stamps) is 3.5inX5in. Therefore, since my invitation is 3inX5in...it does not meet the minimum size of a letter. Therefore, according to the stupid Post Office lady, it will cost me 62Cents to mail out EACH invitation.

Then, I ask her about our "postcard" response cards. She measures it, and says "these are too short to be a postcard, they'll have to be mailed back in an envelope at 62cents".

WTF!!!!

So, what I was thinking would cost me only $69 for 100 42cent stamps, and 100 27cent postcard stamps...is now going to cost me $125 in 200 62cent stamps...plus, I'll have to have my response cards reprinted (at $30) because we already have the return labels on the response cards, but since they need to be mailed out in evelopes, we need to put our return labels on the envelope instead!!

I think i'm just gonna call the wedding off!!