Miss Manners: Can I just avoid responding to a last-minute wedding invitation?

A reader asks Miss Manners how to handle a wedding invitation received after the RSVP deadline. The invitation arrived 11 days after the requested response date.
I saw that the instructions were to RSVP by a date 11 days before I received the invitation.
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