Teleidoscope

Mon, Jun 04, 2007

Stamps

Posted at 10:45 pm MDT to Current Events

For years I have bought stamps in 100-stamp rolls. But I think I'm going to have to change that policy now that I pay most of my bills on-line. They are changing postage prices much faster than I use up the stamps these days.

The policy change is academic at the moment. I bought a roll of stamps last fall in Boston, and at the rate I'm not using it (and at the rate they keep raising the postage rates) I'll need 5-cent stamps (or larger) to accompany the last stamps on the roll, not just the 2-cent stamps I bought today.

The previous roll of stamps needed help at the end too. In fact, I should have a few of those 2-cent stamps around somewhere, though I can't find them at the moment.

I suppose it is no wonder the Post Office is going broke: a few years ago I used 8 to 12 stamps each month, just paying bills and such. Now it is more like two or three. Everything else in on-line, where I don't need to use stamps and payments get made on the day I specify.

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