![]() ![]() When it opens, a digital card slides out. When a card is sent, the receiver first sees a closed envelope. Its digital cards look like the real thing. The way Paperless Post presents its cards may have helped drum up demand for something more traditional. It sounds like an unlikely match: Crane has been printing cards and stationary since 1801 in Dalton, Mass, while New York-based Paperless Post was launched in 2009 by 20-something siblings with no plans to ever print cards. Users will be able to choose from 35 wedding invitation designs that they can customize and then print on Crane paper. Starting Wednesday, Paperless Post is teaming up with stationery and card maker Crane & Co. The New York company launched PAPER by Paperless Post in October after customers requested a way to get its electronic greeting cards and invitations in a more old-fashioned way: On actual paper. Now the online invitation and greeting card startup is taking that defiance a step further. NEW YORK (AP) - Paperless Post has defied its original digital business model successfully once. In digital age%2C people still like to get print invites for special occasions.Partnering with printer%2C online card-maker is selling wedding invites.Founders of digital business are defying their startup model.I would have rather paid 3x the price for what I actually wanted. The fact that they refunded me means nothing. At that point, I just wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out. Then, yesterday, I start getting text messages from friends and family that they'd received my Save The Date, only to see in a few of their pictures that the black envelope liner had completely bled onto the white backing of the card (aka the side that had the date and location on it). It was a relief to be done with the whole process and to get them out in the mail. I ended up having to send them anyway because I was already so late in my mailing timeline because of this whole process. A few days later I received the 3RD shipment of the Save The Dates, and of course, they were still wrong. They said they would refund me, rush an order again, and overnight me a new order that was "as close as possible" to the the picture I had initially tried to order. Again, I contacted them right away and they told me that they "can never guarantee 100% that your order is going to come out looking exactly like your sample or draft" which is, of course, complete BS. This time the picture was SO dark you couldn't even see our eyes, our sockets just looked black. I received the order a few days later and it was also WAY off. ![]() They were responsive, and said that there was a problem with the printer and that they would rush a re-print and overnight a new order to me. It was not comparable at ALL to the sample or the draft online. It was incredibly light and the whole photo looked washed out. I received the order and the coloring was WAY off. PAPERLESS POSTS FULLAfter ordering countless samples, I finally decided on which coloring I liked best and ordered the full shipment of 110 printed cards. I wanted a full photo of me and my fiance on one side and the date and location on the other. I specifically chose Paperlesspost because they allowed for a custom, square, 2-sided card which I wanted to design as my Save The Date. ![]() That seems a VERY shady practice, holding us hostage to the money we've paid for services and products we HAVEN'T received. And then they have the gall to charge UNITS of 'coins', rather than just letting us pay for what we've bought. ![]() Whoever designed that website needs to never work in the field again. I tried and tried-scheduled, unscheduled and edited, but nothing worked, and then at some point I must have clicked something wrong because the card SENT! Not even with a "are you sure you want to send" message, it just SENT, a day early and completely NOT when I wanted it to go. The website was SO opaque and non-intuitive several times I filled out the "recipient" box with my daughter's name, only to find MY name on the virtual envelope front of the sample. I ventured onto the site because it had online photo cards for my daughter's birthday, the first since she moved halfway across the country for grad school. ![]()
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