The other day, I was informed via a group e-mail - that postage (for mailing your basicletter) is going UP again. One penny more. On May 1, 2008.
Never down, only UP.
Increases.
No biggie, right?
Still a bargain, yes?
One cent at a time. Sometimes, two.
We get used to it, no?
Yet one does tire of the announcements of increase this and increase that.
(Watching a movie from the 70's-80's ?? yesterday, my jaw dropped at seeing gas prices posted at $1.31 per gallon! Gosh, that seemed like eons ago...).
At any rate...(haha)....and many of you already know this...
U.S.P.S. offers 'Forever' postage stamps. Buy them today at the current First Class Postage rates, use them forever without having to add more postage to meet
higher rates in the future.
I thought this a good idea.
Purchase a hefty stockpile of postage stamps at the current rate - use 'em 'later'. All the better to pooh-pooh any future hikes in postage.
Ace up the sleeve, like.
I was ready to head down to my local P.O. (which for me, typically stands for how Pissed Off I get at the postal service) for some Forever's, until I talked with a buddy-o-mine yesterday.
My friend stated that anyone who buys Forever stamps today will probably end up using them sooner than later. Like, much sooner.
You run out of stamps, you reach for the Forevers.
Sometimes, Forever ends up being Next Month.
She's right, y'know.
This same friend is having a time capsule sealed into a wall of her new home (currently under construction). Now, wouldn't it be coooooooool to have some Forever Stamps sealed into her time capsule for folks in the future to use?!? Say, 50 to 100 years or more in the future - when postal rates - if they still exist - may well be upwards of $10 per letter? Now, that makes some good sense (or cents).
More in U.S.P.S. related news:
I was surprised to see, at my local P.O., a 6 foot tall cardboard free-standing display - of HBO's upcoming 7-part miniseries, 'John Adams'.
Waaaah? Advertising T.V. shows at the Post Office?!?
Seems the P.O. has a deal going with HBO to promote the television show.
Velly intahlesting.
By the way, I am so ready to embrace Paul Giamatti in the role of John Adams, aren't you? And Laura Linney as Abigail Adams!
What's not to love?
5 comments:
i'm still trying to use up my 39 cent stamps. :(
Your blog is "velly intahlesting." :)
yes and buying in bulk... in advance is like giving the PO a loan. they figure if people stock up, they get all this revenue in advance... because like you said... forever is next month and you will run down and buy more forevers on top of your normal everyday stamps... and you want to get the normal everyday stamps because they are so cute you can't not get them and you have to et the forevers so you can use them...not forever... it's a vicious cycle. now i'm PO'd.
I also still have some 39's, as well as a couple of undetermined rate 'mystery' postage stamps.
As with so much else in our ever-changing sped up existence, I cannot keep up. Perhaps I don't really wish to...
Bottom line: Have decided against buying Forever Stamps at this time.
Maybe Next Month?
HaHa.
Conn's got it right!
Rip off!
Sort of.
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