using old postage

[hamsterstamps]

Question to my philatelic friends:

I use old postage on all my ebay sendings.  Has worked well for years.  When I mosey up to the Post Office with my first class lettermail to Canada, it has 92c of good collectable stamps on it ready to mail.  I have never had a problem - until today when a cranky postmistress in an actual Post Office (not an outlet) said I needed $1.07 postage unless I had a booklet stamp on it.  I know they made a change a few years ago to the split pricing on over the counter sales - you pay a surcharge to buy a single stamp - but I also remember we looked into it and confirmed this price was only for over the counter sales.  I even remember reading it somewhere in the bowels of the Canada Post Policy manual.  Now however, I can't find it.  I called the Canada Post help desk and they canvassed the room and they think that you need $1.07 postage for prepaid mail, but they didn't sound convinced.  I am certainly open to being wrong and being guilty of underpaying postage for the last few years (and never having any sent back or not delivered) but any ideas from out there?

[femmefan1946]

If you are having a problem like that, it would be a good idea to tell the postmaster at the Post Office that the clerk needs retraining.

Was this the post Office or a postal Outlet? The latter are not Canada Post employees.

I'm amazed that the phone desk at Canada Post has the same problem.

It's 92c postage, but if you buy a single stamp over the counter, the clerk will add a service charge. (Well, technically, her cash register will add it.)

And yeah. Since you don't need an acceptance number and the package is going untracked LetterPost, drop it in the red post box.