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Printing additional postage on the mailstation series

Learn how to add additional postage to your mail piece using the mailstation and mailstation2.
Products affected: mailstation™ and mailstation2™
If you need to add more postage to a mail piece, you can add additional postage directly on a tape, and then attach the tape to your mail piece. 
  1. Place your item on the scale
  2. Press the Menu button
  3. Navigate the menu using the Review button to Change meter stamp type?.
  4. Press Enter.
  5. Navigate the menu using the Review button to Add more postage to mail piece?. 
  6. Press Enter.
  7. Key in the postage correction amount.
  8. Press Enter.
Note: Canada Post regulations stipulate that postage correction values are not allowed within the range of the Lettermail rating structure. The postage correction value must be outside of the range.
  1. Insert a tape sheet​.
  2. You can apply the tape beside or below the original impression.
  • The additional postage prints on the envelope as shown.  It must not overlap the original impression or cover any address information.  The word "Correction" appears on the indicia.
Postage correction to the side of original impression
Postage correction below the original impression

UPDATED: 14 August 2021