You know how you should learn at least ONE new thing a day? Yesterday, I got lucky and learned:
Lesson #1 - A postcard... or more
specifically THIS postcard
(our entire family 'heart' Andy Riley's Bunnie Suicide cartoons) picked out by Erin because she thought it would be
perfect considering her father's recent travel adventures. The lesson? It now costs THIRTY TWO CENTS to send a postcard?
(Color me clueless, but I guess it's been a while since I visited one of those austere institutions)
Lesson #2 - When you only have 10 cent stamps and then run into the post office to get 2 cent stamps so you can apply the proper amount of postage required...
take my word on this... you'll be given some very strange and possibly alarmed looks from your USPS staff and fellow patrons as you mutter obscenities under your breath while you attempt to put FOUR stamps across the top of the postcard... and run out of space.
(The good news is that it only takes ONE irate glance to keep ANYONE from laughing at your obvious predicament)
Lesson #3 - Deciding to avoid the same problem again... I bought a book of stamps without really looking at them. I got home and then realized they did not list the postage amount on the stamp. Rachel, who happened to be sitting nearby, looked at the stamps when I asked,
"How are you supposed to know how much these are worth?" Rachel then said to me very seriously,
"Mom, you can't put a price on 'Freedom'" I looked down at the stamps as Rachel continued,
"or Justice, Equality or Liberty." It kills me sometimes that she can say things like this off the cuff, all the time, with her father's straight face. I've
tried to stop asking either of them a LONG time ago, just where they come up with some of this stuff... but I still find myself sometimes halfway through the question before I realize this question has already been answered
(many times) before I just turn and walk away.
Wow. Just ... wow.
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ReplyDeleteWe inherited many OLD stamps from my MIL. She apparently thought that once they increased postage you couldn't use the old stamps anymore...for the last several years we have been using multiple stamps combined with 1, 2, and 3 cent stamps to make up the proper amount...I always wonder what the mail people think when they see an envelope with 5 or 6 stamps on it...probably that my MIL passed on and left stamps as her legacy...
I'd be just as clueless as you - because I haven't mailed anything in what feels like FOREVER. Since I pay all my bills online, I haven't needed any stamps! I can't believe they've gone up so much!
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