A New Take On Penny Postage

I used to get boxes of envelopes to sort though for stamps, and over the years, I have found a lot of these envelopes.
It's a wonder that they didn't get ruined in the mail, but they survived.
I guess it's easier to attach a penny then to go out and buy another stamp.
Didn't do any good for the post office though. They never got their penny.

AMAZING!!

I've never seen that!

If you did that today with USPS, they would charge you an additional 10c for tacking on a coin because it is no longer "machinable" mail!

A definite thanks for posting those pics!!

k

I can't believe they delivered them with the coin still attached! So Canada Post has been ripped off a cent, but delivered it anyway even though it's heavier than a normal letter with the weight of the coin!

And isn't it against Postal Regulations to send cash in the mail??

Balf

Wow...this is the first time that I've seen that this type of thing exists

Wow, can't believe that still happens. In one job I did, I sometimes had customers who would send a coin in the mail if their vouchers didn't cover the full payment...but a PENNY?

Two things:

(1) I remember back in primary school (ca. 1971) reading in My Weekly Reader about a girl who didn't have a stamp and taped a nickel and three pennies to her envelope -- and the USPS even cancelled her coins.

(2) A lot of people don't realize this, but Canada Post will not bother charging Postage Due on anything that is shortpaid a nickel or less, because it's not worth delaying a letter for such a small amount. Everytime the postage used to go up a penny at the first of a new year, I used to tell people not to bother buying sheets of 1 cent stamps, and to just use up their old postage. This, of course, didn't get me any friends among management, but did get me several from the public, who, I rationalized, were the reason we were in business, anyway!

I've seen a few coins going through the NZ postal system.

For a number of years now if an envelope has insufficient postage on it they put a sticker "Item may have been delayed due to insufficient postage" The letter still gets delivered so if one is not worried over a day or to then post it anyway. I've even seen letters with no stamps being delivered with the red sticker!

Those are awesome! I'm shocked that they even got delivered. I accidentally dropped a postcard in the mail the other day without a stamp...next day it was in my mailbox. No freebies here!

Very cool!

Maybe we should all tape an extra penny on all of our current mail. It would only take several billion of us doing that and the USPS would break even!

Only trouble with that is, the post offices don't gather the pennies, but if you all want my address, I will certainly gather them. Hehehe!
It is still amazing that they do get though the mail properly. If nothing else you would think they would be destroyed in the machines. I had dozens of them over a couple of years. Most of them, I did gather the pennies from. No point in letting them sit around.

Knowing USPS, they would probably still end up doubling their deficit instead; as well as lose all that mail with pennies on it! Our government has an experienced history of taking our money and running a deficit at the same time. I think the budgetary formula used is

proposed budget = actual revenue x 10000

k