Mailing invitations to Canada

Nope not yet... I have to go over seas tho not looking forward to those! OOH just thought of this... Who is your FH closest to in Canada... Maybe assemble all of them together Mail them in a box to someone who's willing to put the postage and mail them inside of Canada - might save a few$$?

Do you just need help writing out how the address should be line per line?? (I'm from Ontario, Canada)

Thanks for the tip Christine. I'll surely ask if I can designate someone. Rachel, yes! That's what I need. Particularly, 1. does the street address line need to be all caps? 2. Do i need to call out "Canada?"

123 White Road

Somewhere, NB

E1B 1A3

Canada

can be caps or not... doesn't matter

I live in Canada, this is how to address it:

Street number, Street name

City, Province

Canada Postal Code

ex:

555 5th Avenue

Springfield, Ontario

Canada H1H 1H1

Hope this helps

I had to address and send invitations to both Italy and Switzerland. You just write them the same way with the country as the last line

ex

Bride's Family

1234 Street name

Genova, Italy 12345

Then I had to write ITALY in capital letters in the right hand corner at the bottom.

Thanks ladies!

Ohh I feel your pain on this one. I have an uncle in Colombia and an aunt in Sweden. I put a stamp on one of their invites and realized...crap it is different sending out of the country! So I sat there and peeled off the stamp lol.

I had invitations going to france, spain, sweden, japan, italy.... it completely stressed me out! don't forget to adjust their RSVP postage as well, or those may get returned to them and / or held up.

My

Mom got a letter from the post office for one of her coworkers weddings because she put a normal stamp in it and they made my mom pay the leftover amount lol

This post makes me so glad none of my guests are out of the country! I would be completely lost!

I would have completely forgot the extra postage on the RSVP envelope! Thanks for this post. Luckily I only have one invite going to Poland

We were told by the good ole USPS that if you give the country code last it will get hung up in the system looking for a US zip code. Of course that was their most recent story when 4 of our invites have not arrived in the countries they belong in. Over a month so far.

They suggested for the future that we put 12345 canada on them

I have two going to Canada. My invites were the same weight as a letter so it was 1.20 for me to send, but the RSVP card which was small was like 1.80 I think. crazy!

Proper addressing from Canada Post

http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/guides/addressing.jsf

And if you scroll down on the USPS site

http://faq.usps.com/eCustomer/iq/usps/request.do?create=kb%3AUSPSFAQ&view%28%29=c[c_usps0910]&varset%28source%29=sourceType%3Aembedded

It also shows the Canadian address the same way.

It's good to see that I'm not the only one who has struggled here. I have 30 invites going to Manitoba and B.C. so this could have been a very expensive, timely mistake - a bridal meltdown.

I went to the post office today and bought $.20 stamps. I'm going to have two lovely bonsai tree stamps and a big ugly George Washington face on all my envelopes. lol.

@ashlee no wonder you had a DW haha

@Jennifer good luck - sorry I didn't read the question correctly - but hope that I might have saved you some$?

FH's mom said sending the invites and responses will pay off in the end. Most of the Canadian fam is elderly and won't attend, but they will use the response envelopes to send back gifts.

For brides on tight budgets, I would highly recommend setting up RSVP on your wedding website to cut some of the postage costs.

I wouldn't worry about RSVP postage. In order to be mailed, the postage has to be from the country mailing the item. I ordered Canadian stamps online (we had three households) and didn't put postage on our other international RSVP. If you do this, make sure you buy the Canadian stamps for US delivery.

http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/productsservices/send/postagestamps.jsf

ETA: I can't find proof of this now, but it's what I was told. I could be wrong.

Yes, Canadian postage to the US is more.

They have special stamps just for sending to the US.

Trust me, we canucks envy the US postal service.