Postage Increases

The post office announced yesterday that new postal rates will go into effect May 11, 2009. Since most invitations require a 2-oz postage stamp, the price will go up from 59-cents to 61-cents. This also means that the one ounce stamp for response envelopes will rise from 42-cents to 44-cents. If you are using a response postcard, the postage stamp will increase to 28-cents.

If your response cards are due back around or shortly after May 11th, I suggest either purchasing a Forever Stamp which does not require additional postage, or purchasing custom 44-cent stamps. You may also want to consider purchasing custom stamps for your outer envelopes and postcards. In previous years, the post office did not offer the "new wedding stamps" until after it exhausted its inventory of the old postage rate. This often meant that you had to add one or two cent stamps to meet the new postage requirements.

I will gladly provide the design for the custom stamps at no charge if you are ordering your invitations through Salutations. I only ask that you provide me with one stamp for my samples!

For more information regarding the upcoming postage changes, please check out http://www.upsp.com/.

Postage Update!

Most of you are probably aware that the new postage rates will go into effect on May 12th. I have just been informed that the new Weddings Stamps with the rate change will not be available until June 10th! If you are mailing out your invitations between May 12th and June 10th, you will either have to use 2 stamps per envelope or order custom stamps. If you have a monogram with your invitation, I will happily send you a high resolution JPEG so that you can order custom stamps to match your invitations. I only ask that you provide me with one of your stamps so that I may use it in my gallery!

Also, the new 42 cent wedding stamp will be sage green, and the 59 cent stamp is peach!