Except if you mail any envelope over one ounce, not flat, oversize or square.
Quick, now, what’s the postage in forever stamps for a non-bendable, 9x9 envelope that weighs 4 ounces?
I think the Post Office’s QC has improved since then. I mail out a few hundred letters or postcards for a local organization, all hand-stamped, and I occasionally get one or two back where someone missed a stamp in a batch.
I think the situation that the OP presented was a lot of the reason for the USPS to come up with the “forever stamp”. It makes everyone happy. People don’t have to worry and the USPS doesn’t have to behave like a bunch of penny-pinching jerks. Win-win!
All you amateur investors have a new venue for your money. Invest in postage stamps! (Ah, the good ole’ days when you could buy subway tokens before the fare increase and make an easy 20% on your money.)
Hmmmm… Maybe THAT’S what gives Big Macs that SPECIAL McDonald’s flavor. :eek:
Surely not. Once they have the letter in the system, it effectively costs the same to deliver it to the recipient as to return it to the sender (less, maybe, if it gets caught early, since it won’t get shipped out of the arrival post office/sorting station). However, the potential costs of having a policy of overlooking underpayment will certainly be high, as people will realize that they can just not pay as much postage as required.
Online postage can get around that rule.
If you have a Paypal account there’s a link to go straight to the “Make Electronic Postage” page.