Cameo Period Rates and Fees : First Class Local Letters
The rate for first class local letters was 4 cents for the first ounce and 2 cents for each additional ounce.
Tillsonburg, June 12, 1964
Sydney, N.S., February 7 1967
The Centennial definitives were issued the following day, February 8 1967
Thomson Bros. Imperial Esso Home Heat Service Dealer, Scarborough
July 7 1965
Ramsey's Esso Service Station, Sydney, N.S.
December 7, 1966
Official Mail
Unemployment Insurance Commission, Penticton, June 3 1963
"G" overprint
Unemployment Insurance Commission, Wallaceburg, September 13, 1963
2 ounce local letter : 4 cents for the first ounce + 2 cents for the next ounce
1 cent Wilding + 5 cent Cameo "G" overprinted stamps
Special Order Stationery
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, December 14 1966
Perfins
Minister of Municipal Affairs, Regina, December 22 1966
Province of Saskatchewan perfin
Canadian Pacific, Calgary, August 31, 1964
CPR perfin
Canadian Pacific Telegram, Vancouver February 10, 1964
Due
Kitchener local first class letter, January 23, 1967
Shortpaid 1 cent and taxed 2 cents, double the deficiency
Undeliverable : Without Return Address on the Outside
Sydney, February 5, 1965
The addressee had moved leaving no forwarding address. Since there was no return address, the Sydney post office sent the letter to the Undeliverable Mail Office (UMO) in Montreal. The letter was opened and the sender's addressed obtained. The letter was then returned to the sender in an ambulance envelope and charged a 5 cent fee.
Letter Carrier Branch, Sydney oval cancellation, February 6 1965
Montreal UMO handstamp, February 26, 1965
RATE SUMMARIES
- 1. Canadian Domestic Letter Rates From 1868 to the Present Day
- 2. Canada Domestic Local Letter Rates : 1851 - 1968
- 3. United States Letter Rates: 1851 to the present day
- 4. United States Air Mail Letter Rates : 1927 - 1976
- 5. Canadian Domestic Air Mail Rates : 1928 - 1954
- 6. United Kingdom and Empire/Commonwealth Letter Rates : 1859 -1971
- 7. Air Mail Letter Rates to the United Kingdom
- 8. International (Universal Postal Union) Letter Rates : 1892 to the present
- 9. Reduced International Letter Rates : Mexico, Cuba, West Indies and Central America, France, South America, and Spain
- 10. Links to Other Posts Dealing with Canadian Postal Rates
- 11. Revamped Centennials