wedding inivte - question on stamps

Mellypoos

hey everyone

I am getting ready to send out my wedding inivites - scary/excited

but i've freaked myself out over stamps. I bought books of 1st class large stamps as i knew they would be over the wieght and size limit of a regular stamp. they fall within the limits of a large letter but i took them into work to double check as they have a royal mail franking machine and the machine said that as they weighed about 130 grams, the postage would be a large letter at £1.26, which is more than the individual cost of a stamp from the book.

does this mean can't use my books of stamps and have to have them all individually done? the stamps are not priced.

help?
Mel

mum2one

Mellypoos wrote: »

hey everyone

I am getting ready to send out my wedding inivites - scary/excited

Congratulations on the forthcoming wedding
but i've freaked myself out over stamps. I bought books of 1st class large stamps as i knew they would be over the wieght and size limit of a regular stamp. they fall within the limits of a large letter but i took them into work to double check as they have a royal mail franking machine and the machine said that as they weighed about 130 grams, the postage would be a large letter at £1.26, which is more than the individual cost of a stamp from the book.

[COLOR="rgb(65, 105, 225)"]When you use a franking machine although the weight will be relevant, the franking machine is discounted, eg 1st class stamp 60p, franked 52p)

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does this mean can't use my books of stamps and have to have them all individually done? the stamps are not priced.
[COLOR="rgb(65, 105, 225)"]Dont worry about the stamps not being priced, as long as they say 1st they still come in at the current price[/COLOR]

help?
Mel

As long as they fit the size, weight of a large stamp then your be fine to use the stamps that you have, (I'm still using the gold 1st class from when it was the queens golden anniversary).xx

Mojisola

1st class large letter stamp is 93p - https://www.royalmail.com/prices-2014 -
so you will need to buy other stamps to the value of 33p to put alongside your 1st class stamps.

LE3

The stamps you bought are for items upto 100g
If your invites are 130g you need to buy more stamps (PO will be able to sell you the "difference" but it likely won't look very pretty on the envelope if that bothers you ...)
Any chance of reducing the weight - 130g sounds quite a lot!

Mellypoos

thats what i was afraid of, but glad i asked the question now dont want guest having to pay to receive their invite.

unfortunately i cant reduce the weight as theres a chocolate bar in each

butler_helen

What kind of chocolate bar did you include? I'm intrigued as to what kind of invites you've got... I'm looking at save the date magnets but they're so heavy - £1 per magnet, £1.23 postage plus the actual invitation... it's looking to be about £5 per person per invite & save the date!

mountainofdebt

Be careful as sending a letter franked costs less than sending the same letter with stamps - if that makes sense!

eg a normal letter costs 37p 2nd class when franked but 53p if you wanted to sent it from a post office.

I know you may not want to do/ be allowed to do this but if I have a large amount of mail to send I can use the office franking machine but obvious pay the cost of franking

CH27

Mellypoos wrote: »

thats what i was afraid of, but glad i asked the question now dont want guest having to pay to receive their invite.

unfortunately i cant reduce the weight as theres a chocolate bar in each

Can you guarantee the chocolate won't melt & ruin the invites?
The postage process isn't gentle & the invite could be out in a postbag in the hot sun for several hours

Stephb1986_2

Is there no way you could hand deliver some of your invites?

Steph xx

Floss

Why not take one of your letters to a Post Office and check its weight on their calibrated scales?

Mellypoos

CH27 wrote: »

Can you guarantee the chocolate won't melt & ruin the invites?
The postage process isn't gentle & the invite could be out in a postbag in the hot sun for several hours

I live in Scotland - I'm not sure what the sun is????

I put on an extra second class stamp each which has covered it as some people emailed/text to say they had theirs already

it was a bar of galaxy,