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When the “forever” stamps were first advertised I asked for two hundred of them at the local post office and was sold the flag stamps that have no price on them with assurance that they were good “forever”. An acquaintance in another city asked for 500 “forever stamps” and received the same flag stamps. Neither of us mails a lot what with email and all and were quite shocked when our letters started coming back marked “insufficient postage.” I went to the P.O. and simply asked the clerk in as cheerful a tone as I could muster what had happened? She accused me of lying and got her supervisor who ordered me out of the building lest he call the police. I had made no accusation or implied any, only asked why my letters all came back. The clerk showed me the liberty bell stamp and accused me of “disorderly conduct.” I left. I also resolved not to use USPS again except when I simply could not do anything else. I refer to pay more for FedEx and rely more on email than even I did before. The two USPS employees did not even bother to say that I was mistaken and must not have asked for “forever” stamps. They started accusing and threatening immediately. How many other places got this scam? And why would they bother? They didn’t make any money from it, only prevented me from saving a couple of dollars I thought I would save.

She accused me of lying and got her supervisor who ordered me out of the building lest he call the police. I had made no accusation or implied any, only asked why my letters all came back. The clerk showed me the liberty bell stamp and accused me of “disorderly conduct.” ... They started accusing and threatening immediately.

For a moment I thought you went into my local post office. I'm *at war* with them and was barred from going in or they'd call the cops.

Which was fine with me as I turned them in to the Postal Inspector's Office in D.C. for theft. I filed a formal complaint. A couple days later I got a call from the manager of my Post Office - he was so nice I thought he wanted to date me. I guess D.C. came down on them pretty hard ;-)

But I still avoid going in. They're a bunch of slugs.