<p>Because of Naviance, I have to send in my letters of rec through mail, rather than electronically. However, one of the teachers who wrote a letter of recommendation is out of town, and has been for a while (which is why this hasn't been resolved sooner). He has scanned and emailed me the letter/common app form with the expectation that I will print out 8 copies and mail them myself, which is fine with me but it means that the envelopes won't have been signed/sealed by the teacher. Is this okay?</p>
<p>Can this wait until school starts again? If so, perhaps someone in the school’s guidance office could take care of it for you.</p>
<p>Alternately, why don’t you just send the addresses to the teacher and offer to reimburse the postage?</p>
<p>I’d rather not wait; they will arrive after the deadline already. And the teacher in question is on a break year - he’ll be in NZ for the next couple months, with no access to postage</p>
<p>Can you ask the teacher if it is OK for you to put his return address on the envelope? I think the letters will be much stronger if they clearly were came from him. Of course, I would not do this without his express (confirmed in writing) permission.</p>
<p>I can ask him that 
I assume an email confirmation is good enough </p>
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<p>This deadline is for you to get your stuff submitted, it is not for your teacher’s deadline.</p>
<p>Wait until school opens back up, talk to your counselor, who will either</p>
<p>Mail the letter for you in a school envelope and put the school seal on the back of the envelope</p>
<p>Have you email the letter to him/her, so that they can upload the letter or electronically send the letter to the colleges</p>
<p>It’s okay if the letters arrive so long after the deadline? School opens back up on January 5th</p>
<p>Yes, your GC can send the letters 1/5/2015 and it will be fine. If you are applying RD, the school will ask for a mid year report, which your school cannot even send until the semester is over.</p>