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Before I retired, I'd buy stamps every few weeks.....but since then it's been months before my wife and I would need to make the trip to the post office and drop a few bucks. Well yesterday the time to do so. $68.00 bucks!!! for roll of stamps!!! I almost S#i%%!! and the postmaster told me hang on because they were going up to $75.00 a roll in a couple of weeks. Can you believe that???? 75CENTS for a first class stamp!!! I know I'm a old fart but I can remember when could mail a letter for 16cents!!! and maybe even less............and get a hell of lot better service. _________ Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. Henry Ford | ||
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You think US Postage is expensive, try mailing a letter in Britain. UK£1 = US$1.27 https://www.mymailingroom.com/rm-prices --------------------- LGBFJB "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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There really are very few reasons in 2024 to be mailing anything through snailmail like this. Maybe start using online more? | |||
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Ah the good old days. ![]() | |||
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Is USPS still a chronic money-loser? I figure it could reduce its costs significantly by stopping Saturday delivery. Even if USPS continued to pay the carriers for that day, the annual savings on fuel and vehicle maintenance ought to be "yuge." Think about it: What comes to your box by USPS that really HAS to be there on Saturday? God bless America. | |||
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You are not old. I remember 3 Cent stamps. __________________________________________________ If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit! Sigs Owned - A Bunch | |||
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Penny postcards הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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It's annoying, but in reality, I used so few stamps these days that I can't get too worked up over it. I usually buy a sheet of stamps (I think maybe 115-20 stamps? and it'll last a year or more. -------------------------------------- | |||
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I must be in between - the cheapest stamps I remember are 4 cents. The only thing I mail these days are my property tax payments. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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Well they have to keep the conveyor belts running in Palmetto, Ga. How else can they afford to hold the same package for two weeks? | |||
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Yeah, I don't much care either. I use maybe one of those books a year, two at most. Almost everything is electronic now. | |||
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Yes and no. I agree. But on the other hand, I wouldn't walk it out to your mailbox for $.75, let along take it cross country. ![]() No worries, Amazon mail should be along any time. | |||
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Pretty much this. I use less than 1 stamp per year on average. Mostly for stuff like mailing back FFL renewal forms, since there's not an online way to do that yet. (Right about the only time I write checks any more as well... The ATF is firmly stuck in the 1990s.) I still have a couple sheets of the "forever" Batman stamps the USPS was offering back in 2014, with only a few stamps used so far. These 35 or so remaining Batman stamps are easily going to last me the rest of my life. | |||
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Not sure what it would save, they should reorganize & deliver every other day. There may be options to encourage P.O. Boxes for some. Seems it’s time to think outside the bun, lots of expense delivering that junk mail. | |||
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I am the only one I know that purchased 15 years worth of Forever stamps when they first came out. Little did I know, I took inventory and it seems that I purchased 20 years worth. ![]() Oh well, now I have something to put in a will / trust.This message has been edited. Last edited by: bendable, Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | |||
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Yeah, I guess I don't understand. I think I still have some of the same forever stamps I bought when they first came out. And I guess when I think about it it's not really too bad. I can barely get out of my neighborhood without spending $.75 on gas these days. The post office gets a lot of shit, but they also provide a a really incredible service. "The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in." | |||
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I went and bought some more forever stamps a few days ago and was told they're going up again. Like others have said, I can't get too worked up about it. $30 to send a package to San Antonio seems a little steep, but maybe it's not on a per-unit-weight basis. About the only things I send by snail mail anymore are birthday and Christmas cards. All my bills are paid electronically, and most of them come to me electronically too. There are some outliers though. I make monthly donations to a couple of charities; those are done electronically by auto-pay so no statements are necessary, but they both insist on sending me a paper statement every month (usually accompanied by a request for an "extra, emergency" donation). And of course I always receive a shit ton of junk mail, especially during election years. Here's an idea to help reduce USPS's cost: Eliminate the bulk rates that junk mail senders get. It would either increase the per-envelope revenue for USPS, or decrease the volume of crap that we all get. Maybe both. | |||
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Yes. We bring in less than we're spending. Thank the union for that. They totally hamstring management while lazy carriers get away with murder and get paid overtime doing so. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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I’ve had two kids get married in two months. The wife has been burning through my 50 cent forever stamp board like she is burning them. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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I am still old school and pay all of my bills with a check and a stamp. I am comfortable with doing it. | |||
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