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Post by jamesw on Apr 19, 2014 1:11:50 GMT
Hello all. I received this postcard as part of a package purchased here a few months ago. I'm just putting some album pages together, and I got to wondering about the postage due. The rate for a post card surface mail from Canada to the US in 1907 was 1¢ (according to Canada, Domestic and International Postal Rates and Fees 1870-1999). Can anyone explain to me the need for the extra 2¢? Has it got to do with the RPO cancel (NY & CHI RPO)? Did rail post add an extra charge? Thanks for your help. James  |
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Post by I.L.S. on Apr 19, 2014 10:37:07 GMT
Good question James? I'll look into it but I don't think the RR added an extra charge. Perhaps a special delivery/handling fee?
Actually I believe the PC rate was 2¢ and that wears a 1¢ stamp but that still leaves an additional 1¢ to wonder about don't it? hmm...
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Post by rod222 on Apr 19, 2014 11:04:21 GMT
Good question James? I'll look into it but I don't think the RR added an extra charge. Perhaps a special delivery/handling fee? Actually I believe the PC rate was 2¢ and that wears a 1¢ stamp but that still leaves an additional 1¢ to wonder about don't it? hmm... Not really, Postage due is probably "double deficiency" so 1c is 2c the problem is, I think the PC rate was 1c, so still a problem. |
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Post by jamesw on Apr 20, 2014 2:03:46 GMT
Jeff, the postal rate for a post card was 1¢, according to my reference (mentioned above).
But I had a thought. I did just notice that the Canadian stamp is not cancelled in a Canadian post office (though the image on the front is the Montreal Pace Viger CP Hotel and Station). Since the RPO is an American railroad, I wonder if when received in Hudson NY, it was assumed that an American stamp should have covered the postage, and so 2¢ postage due (double deficiency) was added.
Possible?
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