Thursday, December 11, 2008

Postmark Disappointment

This year I tried sending my Christmas cards to Frost, MN for a special Holiday postmark as Emily has done in years past. See her post HERE. I chose Frost because it was one of the cities listed on this website that supposedly had some sort of special Holiday postmark.

This is what I got back--nothing special there! I'm sure that no one will even pay attention that our card has been sent from somewhere other than where we actually live. So that makes for a waste of $7 additional postage and handling. I'm bugged!!

I e-mailed the webmaster of that website to inform them of what happened so that they could change the designation on their list. I'll keep you posted if I hear anything back from them.

So I guess my caution would be to hope for the best and expect that it may not be exactly what you'd like as you are choosing cities with holiday postmarks.

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5 comments:

  1. EmilyDecember 11, 2008 at 2:13 PM

    Oh man, that is a B-U-M-M-E-R! I'd be bugged, too. I was just getting around to deciding where I was sending my cards.

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  2. ~Michelle~December 11, 2008 at 6:04 PM

    I read somewhere that some of these special postmarks are only available if you come into the post office & do it yourself by hand...

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  3. LeslieDecember 12, 2008 at 8:54 AM

    Lame.

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  4. EmilyDecember 12, 2008 at 9:20 AM

    I did a little more research and found that Noel, Mo Santa Claus, IN and North Pole, AK are sure bets. The other towns are still iffy until I find out differently.

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  5. RenaeDecember 12, 2008 at 10:55 AM

    Still no word back from the webmaster. I did happen to look on the USPS website and they basically had the same towns/cities listed as this Christmas letter website we used. And they also had the same designations as which ones used special holiday postmarks. So who knows what's up...

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