Monday

$o.o1


the price of stamps went up again. i think the last time this happened was when tom and i got married. we sent out all these thank-yous but had to have the extra one cent stamp to add to the already purchased stamps. so now they're offering the forever stamp. you buy it for 41 cents and it will always be good, even when the postal service raises the prices again (and they will.) i listened to 'wad'ya know' on npr saturday and michael feldman said if it really is a "forever" stamp then you should be able to reuse it too. so if someone sends you a letter you should cut it out and either give it back to them or use it the next time you send a letter. i like this idea, except for the fact that we hardly ever get any mail with real stamps and right now i'm sending out baby announcements (yes she is already three months old, but in the grand scheme that's not that old). so it's off to the post office to get some one cent stamps, and maybe some forever stamps. check a mailbox near you. i dare you to reuse it.


sidenote: do you call him the postman or the mailman? (and no jokes about calling him "dad")

1 comment:

jdmartin said...

When I was in college I had a summer job working for the secretary of state's office in Missouri. One of my fun jobs was to open thousands of envelopes from corporations mailing in their legal junk. I made it a game to see how many uncancelled stamps I could find (the ones that didn't have any postage lines on them). I cut them out, reused them and didn't buy a stamp for three years. No joke.

Mailman? Postman? How about letter carrier?