Toronto to Montreal on a .47 cent stamp?

[jazzhound]

I'm trying to send a letter to Montreal from Toronto, and this stamp booklet I have are all 47 cents; however, according to the canadapost.ca rates, I need a 49 cent stamp.

1) are my stamps outdated, if so, when did they hike the rates?

2) will they return my letter because it's 2 cent short?

3) Oh boy, I'm screwed because I only have one stamp left.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

just buy two 1 cent stamps and don't worry about it?

 

[jazzhound]

They make 1 cent stamps? I guess I have to walk to the post office, argh.

 

[StageLeft]

No they won't accept it; you'll need to get up to $.49. If you ahd a second $.47 you could put that on 🙁

 

[jazzhound]

May be instead of deliverying it to the recepients box, they can leave it at their drive way or front of the house. 2 cents, sheesh.

 

[eelw]

I'm tempted to try this one day. Place your address as the receiving address and use the intended receipant address as the return to address. Drop in in the mail without a stamp, and ideally, it should reach it's destination.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: eelw
I'm tempted to try this one day. Place your address as the receiving address and use the intended receipant address as the return to address. Drop in in the mail without a stamp, and ideally, it should reach it's destination.

Couldn't that be considered postal fraud?

 

[brigden]

Originally posted by: eelw
I'm tempted to try this one day. Place your address as the receiving address and use the intended receipant address as the return to address. Drop in in the mail without a stamp, and ideally, it should reach it's destination.

Awesome.

 

[BCYL]

Yes your stamps are out of date, you'll need to buy some 1 cent stamps to mail the letter... same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago too, good thing my gf told me to check the rate before simply putting the 47 cent stamp on...

 

[Freejack2]

Umm I don't know about Canada but here if you don't put a stamp on, they put it in the dead letter pile and it never goes anywhere. Don't know if you can even retrieve it from them.

 

[jazzhound]

Wow that was a long hike to the town's only postal office. I also bought some milk and eggs while I was there and saw this strange book titled Spider-man issue #1. It was 5 cent though, so I need to save up for it.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: Freejack2
Umm I don't know about Canada but here if you don't put a stamp on, they put it in the dead letter pile and it never goes anywhere. Don't know if you can even retrieve it from them.

Canada Post probably does that most of the time. But I had some fool where I work drop a pay advice envelope into the mail without the stamp. The thing made it to my home, with a note about insufficient postage and to pay it at the postoffice. I really didn't want the letter so I never opened it or sent the money to Canada Post.

 

[eelw]

Originally posted by: Freejack2
Umm I don't know about Canada but here if you don't put a stamp on, they put it in the dead letter pile and it never goes anywhere. Don't know if you can even retrieve it from them.

Canada Post will return back to sender for any insufficent postage mail. So for my post about using the desired destination as the return to address, Canada Post will return the letter to return to address, but in actual fact would be the desired destination. But yes, I would assume this would be considerd postal fraud.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: jazzhound
Wow that was a long hike to the town's only postal office. I also bought some milk and eggs while I was there and saw this strange book titled Spider-man issue #1. It was 5 cent though, so I need to save up for it.

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