Current Canada Letter Rates

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

Anyone else in agreement that the recent rate adjustment for Canadian letter mail, regular and oversized was a bit excessive? Used to be stick a 2.09/3.43 and good to go for anything slightly oversized. Now it's become a challenge mixing and matching up stamps to get to the right number. I was optimistically hoping 100 discounted stamps would last awhile. It's not looking promising!!!

[ilikehockeyjerseys]

The reason that you can use two P-stamps for 100g is because there is a specific rule in the Canada Post handbook that allows for a buffer between the cost of oversized lettermail $2.61 and two P stamps $2.48. Not every post office employee will know about this rule, and they might request that you pay the difference. But it does exist, I have seen it in the booklet myself courtesy of the employee who told me about it, and I believe someone who posts here has also posted a photo of the exact page. 

Unless Canada Post changed the rules, P-stamps should be valued at $1.24 not $1.44. I don't believe they have ever been valued at the single stamp rate. For example, if you wanted to pay for $12.40 of postage using P-stamps, it would take 10 p-stamps (10 x $1.24 = $12.40). I saw the rule back when the short-change between two P-stamps and the OS 100g rate was 10 cents - but I believe the way it is worded is that OS 100g mail can be accepted 10 cents short if it has 2 p-stamps. Not that p-stamps are worth the inflated single stamp rate. 

[dinomitesales]

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@mrdee4097 wrote:

After receiving an oversize letter in the mail with only two P-stamps, I called Canada Post about the value of a $1.24 P-stamp and was transferred to a special department where I was told, in no uncertain terms, that those P stamps you buy for $1.24 in bulk or 10-packs are worth the standard going letter rate of $1.44 . So you can use two permanent stamps (worth $1.44 each, a total of $2.88) for the $2.61 oversize letter rate.

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lol just goes to show that even the employees in the "special department" have no idea what they're talking about.

If that's true then ask them whey their own postal guide documentation says a Permanent stamp is worth $1.24 (page 12, bottom). And then ask them why, if a Permanent stamp is already worth $1.44, they bother printing/distributing/selling an entirely different stamp with a printed denomination of $1.44 (as @recped  showed, and can be verified by going to any post office in the country and asking for a single stamp).