ScrapPea
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Okay, okay. I have to apologize for being all snarky earlier. It was just...well, one of those days and I'm sorry for appearing all petty.
My envelope had more than just a Forever stamp on it. I had the Forever stamp on with almost enough other postage. When the first woman "credited" my Forever stamp, I was still 6-cents short, so I paid for (2) 3-cent stamps. I was told that international to anywhere is a minimum $1.05, and--surprise!--the PO sells those postage stamps.
So Donna...when Australia gets international mail, is there a tax or surcharge on that postage? The postal clerk here said that since there was no cash amount printed on the stamp, Australia wouldn't know what to count it as. Maybe she actually meant there would be a problem "here," as in "the US." To my knowledge there is no obvious stamp tax. A Forever stamp is just that; buy it at 42-cents and you can use it as legit postage when there's an increase to 50-cents; you saved 8-cents by using an older Forever stamp. That may be the issue: is "this Forever stamp" a 42-cent Forever or a 44-cent Forever or a 45-cent Forever? Maybe that's the issue, but no one here has explained that to me, unlike the nice postal woman you encountered, Donna.
My envelope had more than just a Forever stamp on it. I had the Forever stamp on with almost enough other postage. When the first woman "credited" my Forever stamp, I was still 6-cents short, so I paid for (2) 3-cent stamps. I was told that international to anywhere is a minimum $1.05, and--surprise!--the PO sells those postage stamps.
So Donna...when Australia gets international mail, is there a tax or surcharge on that postage? The postal clerk here said that since there was no cash amount printed on the stamp, Australia wouldn't know what to count it as. Maybe she actually meant there would be a problem "here," as in "the US." To my knowledge there is no obvious stamp tax. A Forever stamp is just that; buy it at 42-cents and you can use it as legit postage when there's an increase to 50-cents; you saved 8-cents by using an older Forever stamp. That may be the issue: is "this Forever stamp" a 42-cent Forever or a 44-cent Forever or a 45-cent Forever? Maybe that's the issue, but no one here has explained that to me, unlike the nice postal woman you encountered, Donna.