i recently mailed a christmas card using only a 24cent stamp what happens to that card?

Answer 1

The USPS will either send it back to you, or they will send your card recipient a notice that they have mail waiting for them at the post office with postage due. The card recipient will have to pay the difference to get the card.

Answer 2

It travels at a very slow 24 cent rate.

Who knows what the post office will decide that speed should be. It doesn't matter though because things have a tendency to not get places until Jan if you mail them in December.

If there is a kind soul working at the post office,.. they will be spreading the Holiday spirit by adding postage to letters like yours. But you'd have to be REALLY lucky to get one of those people. They really do exsist and do that through December.

Added: If your confused about what I am saying. 39 cents is the cost of a certain rate for a certain class effective for a letter under a certain weight [and all this indicates the shipping speed]. There are LOWER classes. So your letter can find it's way into a lower class noone is told about any more. It use to be some post offices let you know about about 7 classes,.. but not every post office was so considerate and now all of them are pretty much the same so there is no telling when the last Post Office decided to makeing it obvious.

Answer 3

I thought that once the post office received the letter they would send it back right away... don't want to take the risk in losing money (even if it is like 15c)

Answer 4

I would think that if the person you sent it to does not pay the postage that is due, then they will return the card to you.

Answer 5

It might get mailed back to you.

Answer 6

It will go back to you.