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stamps for USA to Canada

looking for some help on the topic of stamps. I am in Canada, and have a lot of invitations going to American relatives on fiance's side. I want to put the return postage on the envelope for them, and have realized I'm not sure that USPS operates the same as Canada Post, and not finding my answers anywhere online because I'm sure it's something so simple to everyone, it doesn't need to be online. But in Canada, well, we just don't know how USPS operates.

#1 - is typical letter mail flat rate in the states? so like, if you were sending something from tx to ny... or from tx to canada versus ny to canada.. it'd be the same price from state to state into canada, right? doesnt vary by postal code/zip code?

#2 - next question is does US have international stamps or just $ value? so i looked it up and it says it's $1.10 to go into canada.. i'm wondering if i need a special stamp (for example. here in canada we have an all of canada stamp, a special US stamp, and then anything outside us/canada is international). i cannot find anything on the website that is a CANADA stamp or a $1.10 so i'm thinking i probably need to combine stamps? frig it's driving me mental. and of COURSE every time ive gone to the states to try to buy stamps, it is a sunday and they're closed. SO ANNOYING!!!! hahaha i probabaly sound so stupid but i am prayyyying maybe you can shed some light on the most seemingly simple thing ever. stamps. crazy. THANK YOU!

Re: stamps for USA to Canada

  • SlothGoalsSlothGoals member
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    edited February 2013
    You can't buy stamps for the US in Canada. You'd have to ask a US friend/relative to send you US stamps for you to use. 

    ETA: Totallllll reading fail on my part. Guh, my brain is not functioning! Sorry!
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  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_invites-paper_stamps-for-usa-to-canada?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:cd062f89-8272-496a-b0ab-225e1f87acecDiscussion:29c1c353-7f80-40f5-9ba5-22f1274ad5f4Post:cc9c9d31-5235-4863-a706-3b853ce9fe2c">Re: stamps for USA to Canada</a>:
    [QUOTE]You can't buy stamps for the US in Canada. You'd have to ask a US friend/relative to send you US stamps for you to use.  ETA: Totallllll reading fail on my part. Guh, my brain is not functioning! Sorry!
    Posted by kristbot[/QUOTE]

    <div>Yeah I figured that... I just don't know what I need. I live close enough to Buffalo NY to go and pick some up I just don't know what I need to get. </div>
  • Also I can order online and have them shipped to me...if I can confirm what I need :) 
  • Could you call a USPS office and ask? I looked around the website and it looks like you can buy $1 and $0.10 stamps separately but I couldn't see how to do it.
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  • So confusing.. of course they're closed Sundays.

    Will call tomorrow :) 
  • I would order the US stamps online and put all the US invitations in a one box and send it to a relative in the US to mail for me.
  • Just saw this on another thread http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2013/pr13_011.htm

    It's an international "forever" stamp!!
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