What’s the smallest letter you can mail?
I’d never thought about this question until today. Today, Crissy met the postman and he said his wedding gift for us was that he delivered our RSVP cards, despite them being too small to mail. I thought it was very nice of him, considering that we do need those RSVPs to know how much food to order and what not.
However since I have too much time on my hands, this isn’t the end of the story. I decided to research a bit. The USPS has a not-so-easy to find page that gives the minimum size for letters: 3.5 by 5 inches.
It turns out our RSVP envelopes are just over the minimum since the cards themselves are 3.5 by 5, but the envelopes are slightly bigger. So technically, we’re fine. However, we had a few arrive that got chewed and torn up by the post office’s sorting machines. We even had some that got returned to sender for being too small.
So, if we do start a wedding invitation outsourcing business, I think the minimum for RSVP cards we sell will be 4 by 6 inches.
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