[Sidenote: Prices of stamps.]
Every postmaster is required to have on hand a sufficient stock of
postage stamps, and to sell them to the public at 1 cent, 5 cents, 10
cents, 12-1/2 cents, and 17 cents each.
[Sidenote: Envelopes.]
Letter envelopes are also provided with medallion, stamps equivalent to
5 cents and 10 cents postage, each. The 5 cent envelopes are sold
singly at 6 cents each; 66 cents per dozen; $5.50 per hundred. The 10
cent envelopes are sold singly at 11 cents each; $1.26 per dozen; $10.50
per hundred.
[Sidenote: Sale to dealers.]
With the approval of the Postmaster General, postage stamps are sold to
certain dealers to retail again to the public.
[Sidenote: Pre-payment in stamps.]
Pre-payment of letters should, in all cases where practicable, be made
by postage stamps.
[Sidenote: Mutilated stamps.]
A mutilated stamp, or a stamp cut in half, is not recognized in
pre-payment of postage.
[Sidenote: Medallion stamps.]
A medallion stamp cannot be accepted in pre-payment of postage if
separated from the envelope of which it may have formed a part.
[Sidenote: British and foreign.]
No British stamps, or stamps of a foreign country, can be received in
pre-payment of postage in Canada.
[Sidenote: Mode of affixing.]
In affixing the stamp to the letter wet slightly the corner of the
envelope and the gummed side of the stamp, and gently press the stamp
till it is firmly fixed. Stamps should be placed on the front or address
side of the letter, and on the right hand upper corner.
[Sidenote: Partial payment in.]
Letters cannot be pre-paid partly in stamps and partly in money; the
pay-postage must be pre-paid either wholly in stamps, or wholly in
money.
[Sidenote: Insufficient pre-payment.]
If the stamps affixed to a letter addressed to any place in British
North America be not adequate to the proper postage, the letter is rated
with an amount equal to the deficiency.
[Sidenote: Do. United States.]
Letters addressed to the United States, on which stamps are affixed
representing less than the amount of postage to which the letters are
liable, are rated with full unpaid postage.
[Sidenote: Stamps received for postage.]
Postage stamps are received at all post offices in payment of postage on
unpaid letters delivered therefrom.
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