Stressing about Postage

The worst that can happen is they mail all your invitations back to you. Unfortunately when we sent ours out, that weight was okay but because of the size of the envelope we had to have a second stamp. But no biggie, we just added another stamp on what we got back and re dropped them off. Everyone seemed to get their invite the second time around.

They did use a red stamp on each of the envelopes, which i was really upset about at first. But we covered most of it with the second stamp and then i thought that people are just going to be throwing away that part anyway. :/

But i'm sure they are fine! If it weren't for the size of our envelopes, they were a bit larger, it would have been fine. Our STD's were no issue and we didn't get those weighed either. oops.

Honestly, you'll probably be fine with just the $.55 stamp. I'm including a cardstock pocket, invitation, RSVP card, RSVP envelope, and business card sized details card and mine only weighs 1.2 oz ($.55 stamp has a limit of 1 oz). Unless your inner envelope or invitations were thick, you'll probably be fine.

I thought we would be ok too but to be safe, I made up 1 invitation exactly how I would be mailing them and took it to the PO and had them weigh it and give me a postage price on it. We ended up needing extra postage and had to buy special stamps but thankfully I hadn't bought any regular stamps yet as I was going to while I was there is that was going to be all I needed. Better safe than sorry.

As long as the envelope is not square and is under 1oz. $0.55 stamps are fine. First Class postage is determined by oz. Square envelopes are considered non machinable and have surcharge making postage go up to $0.70 for an oz. or less. I work for a mail house so I can answer any postage questions you might have.

Good resource https://www.usps.com/business/prices.htm