USPS taking forever to deliver certain invitations! Could they be lost?

Yes mail gets lost, I just received the envelope my brother sent me with all the labels in it for our save the dates. He sent it in October. It showed up with no labels, ripped to shreds. I don't mean to alarm you, I just know that it happens. Maybe wait til the end of the week and check again with guests who didn't receive them yet.

Yes mail does get lost, but other mail just takes longer to deliver. Does she live near you, or does she possibly live in a remote area?

We had one friend that lived in a remote area, that we found out takes weeks to get mail to and from our area. We didn't get their rsvp card until weeks after they sent it.

Thanks Tara, luckily I am close to everyone who is invited so I can reach out to each one individually if I need to. I'm just in shock that this is happening after all that effort and money I spent on gorgeous invitations I hope this is the only hiccup we encounter!

Yeah, unfortunately. My friend asked if I received her Save the date. I haven't and she sent it in November. I think December is just a crazy time at the post office.

It happens. I'm still discovering more and more people never got my save the dates in October. Some lived in Europe, some in the Midwest, and some here in Los Angeles.

Some of the Los Angeles people got theirs eventually.

Just start checking in with people.

I had a friend receive his invite in the mail on Dec 17, two days before the wedding. The postmarked date was Nov 1. The invite was mailed 10 mins away from where its destination was. USPS makes no sense sometimes.

My friend who lives closest to me actually got our save the date 2 months later than everyone else, but it eventually got there. I don't understand how the post office works.

Mail does get lost. I had a chunk get lost.

Oh lord, thanks for the replies. I texted most of my friends and looks like only 12 out of 36 invites made it. 24 have either been lost or will be returned eventually or are going to arrive too late eventually. Thank goodness this is a small wedding. I'll bring a copy and put it on display at my wedding I guess.

My mom sent me a christmas gift 3 weeks ago and still haven't got it. I live in TX and she's in FL. She hasn't gotten it back either.

I'm not understanding why invites went out in December for a March wedding, when they shouldn't be mailed until 6-8 weeks out. December is the absolute busiest month of the year for the USPS, and a LOT gets lost.

That said, can you send them out again? Did you order extra as a contingency, or can you get more, cheaper ones to resend?

Mail gets lost, my dad got his save the date like two weeks after everyone else. I mailed save the dates to people that lived down the street from him and they got it on time.

Per the USPS webpage, and confirmed by my local branch - everything is supposed to be on the front of the envelope, including the return address. With machines sorting most of the mail these days, not putting the return address where they want it may be enough for them to put it into a dead letter bin. The machine might think there is no return address to send it back to?

I mailed an invitation to my cousin cross-country, and it never came back. He later told me he had moved and the forwarding address had probably expired. Don't know why the USPS didn't mail it back to me - I'm guessing someone at his former address opened it and just chucked it.

My sister lost a save the date, in a similar situation. Her MIL gave her an old address, and instead of receiving it back in the mail, it disappeared. Later, when she sent another StD, to the same uncle, it came back 3 weeks later with a stamp on it saying "incomplete address." He lives about 20 minutes away, so the 3 weeks was absurd.

@Carrie, sorry you're dealing with this

My wedding on March 5th and its destination so it was imperative that invitations go out 10 weeks prior. I live in Philadelphia and I'm suspecting possible fraud by mail workers now after reading reports online. The inserts may have been mistaken for gift cards. Unfortunately most of the designer initiations print return address for you on the back of the envelope. I have received mail successfully all the time with return address on the back. I used a calligrapher that my friend just used for her wedding over the summer with no issues, so can't be the printing? I never thought this was even an issue these days but I'm learning so many other brides had same trouble. Oh dear, thankfully my STDs arrived and my shower invites, only these damn invitations that I spent a fortune on and mailing then also was costly with the extra postage!! The people at my local post office feel so badly for me. They remember hand canceling them and promised me they all went out safely

I haven't gotten a single invite that got lost back yet. When I asked the employees at the PO where I mailed my invites the guy said they might be in a piece of sorting equipment somewhere that someone thought was empty and turned it off. I had to re send a bunch. Another reason to order more invites than you really need.

I have a friend in Fiji who got my Christmas card one year in August. When I sent them in December. Granted, it's Fiji, but still. 8 months.

I had a STD returned after 2 months. The reason? Unable to forward. Complete BS since my friend had only given up her PO box about six weeks earlier (but didn't tell anyone b/c they are supposed to forward mail for a year).

Some years ago, before I lived in the US, I mailed a small package to a friend for another friend during a visit. Tracking first said it was delivered after a week or so, but she never got it. The address was 100 % right. About half a year later it showed up overseas at my other friends house (since I put her as a return address).

I lost my trust in USPS before even living here..

If the return address is on the back its unlikely they'd return to you if they couldn't be delivered. It's not that they won't deliver something with a return on the back, if the recipient address is fine, it's that to them, there isn't a return address to return to if they can't deliver. They may be lost, they may be delayed. There's no way to really know. I'd give it another week then resend.