1970 Booklet Panes

I have three of these booklets of QEII transports, two with DEX gum and one with PVA






Innocent enough I suppose until you look at the price on the cover. Since when does 4 x 6¢ = 25¢?

Goes to show you can't count on Canada Post. Though I don't think it subtracts from the item itself. Perhaps it hides a multiple of sins? The addition of the bilingual cover certainly helps....oh, somebody stop me!

they were anticipating the phasing out of the penny and used the rounding up system.

In the U.S., you now pay a substantial premium over face value for stamped envelopes and cards. No freebies anymore. As it is, they only charged 1c for that little book, surely well below cost, even then.

The Canada Post Office received a lot of criticism at the time. The same mistake was not made when the 7c booklet was produced:



The Opal booklet had 20 cents worth of stamps and sold for 25 cents.

I'm not familiar with Canadian booklets.

But with only a couple of exceptions, up to the 1940s almost all the early US booklets were sold at 1c over face value. Sort of a packaging charge. This practice was continued for a handful of booklets as late as the 1960 7c airmail booklet, which sold for 85c instead of the 84c face value.

The early regular issue US self-adhesives (10c Christmas weather vane doesn't count) were also sold at above face value. For example, the 25c self-adhesive eagle had a face value of $4.50 for the pane, but was sold for $5. The three 29c self-adhesive eagle/shield panes and coil strips each had a face value of $4.93, but initially sold for $5. That policy was changed after a few months (don't remember how long), and they began selling for FV of $4.93. After that, all US self-adhesives sold at face value.

They were the good ole days jamesw.

I remember that every time I had 10 quarters in my pocket, I would go to the post office vending machine and buy a complete set every time. The designs would come out different for each quarter inserted.

I still have some of those booklets too.

Chimo

Bujutsu

All vending machines selling stamps in Canada were set for 25 cent coins.

The extra cent charged was because the machine could not accept nickels, dimes, or pennies.

Well that makes sense. Though I like to think Canadianphilatelist was right suggesting how forward thinking Canada Post to anticipate the demise of the penny.
Here's another one that added up correctly.

The back of the 6c black booklet was not shown initially in this discussion. The Post Office did provide an explanation :



But that extra penny really bothered some people. Seems silly to me but as a result we have seen interesting se-tenant combinations over the years.

true lorddenning, the books do say that on the back, but the setennant book shown above predates the 4x6¢ book by 2 years. So does that mean, because of printing and service costs they removed the one cent stamp?