USA Kaleidoscope Flowers FDC

This first day cover from the US has a pair of recently issued flower stamps that were generated using computer graphics.

The USPS recently introduced a rate change that had little impact on the price of domestic mail (a 1 cent increase) but anyone sending mail to Canada from the US might have noticed that they did away with the Canadian rate. Canada is now treated as an international destination and 1oz letters to Canada cost $1.10 instead of the $0.85 they used to cost.