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Stamps set to increase by two cents May 11
McDuffie Mirror ^ | May 07, 2009 | Lynn Davidson

Posted on 05/08/2009 2:23:39 PM PDT by george76

Postage rates are increasing on Monday, May 11 for first class postage and other services. .. it's not too late to lock in the current rate by buying Forever Stamps.

"If you buy them today at today's price, it doesn't matter if you use them in numerous years to come, even 100 years from now, that stamp will still be good as a first class stamp, even though you paid 42 cents for it,"

But time is of the essence, because the Forever Stamp rate also will increase on Monday.

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.augusta.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: carrier; letter; mail; post; postage; postagerates; stamps; usps
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To: Cicero

Costo is selling these forever stamps.

Maybe others too.


21 posted on 05/08/2009 5:04:06 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
I don't use the USPS at all anymore.

Heard on the radio that the IRS will only communicate with taxpayers through the USPS and I don't want the IRS communicating with me at all under any circumstances.

22 posted on 05/08/2009 7:53:38 PM PDT by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: gunnyg
Well there Zippy....and I quote: Mental levels like this is what got us where we are today with an outlaw gubmint, etc.

What other parts of the Constitution do you want to change???????

Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads".

What other tit sucking government ops are self supporting?

23 posted on 05/09/2009 2:15:32 AM PDT by MrPiper
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To: MrPiper

“”To establish Post Offices and post Roads”. “
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Not impressed—how many others will take their places with the “flawed”—as aka refers to it, Constitution— constitutional experts quoting this and that and citing their certifications in constitutional law, e.g. aka and biden, on and on....we know who/what they are....and their bigmouth suckups aping them (useful idiots/fella travelers, etc.


24 posted on 05/09/2009 4:59:14 AM PDT by gunnyg
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To: albie
I just got 4 packets of stamps about a week ago. Have to get 4 packets of 2 centers now. #%@**^!

I'm not so certain you do. I'm thinking that you just bought the current crop of forever stamps unless they have a stamp price on them.

25 posted on 05/09/2009 5:05:48 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun in an Indy car....)
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To: CholeraJoe

Folks I know bought 1,000 of them - they spent $420 in order to save maybe $20 over the span of however much time it takes to use 1,000 stamps.

The streamlined, no-hearings-necessary postage rate increases that we’ve been seeing are simply tied to the rate of inflation, so in effect, the Forever Stamps are simply a bearer instrument indexed to the rate of inflation. You’d do better paying cash for your stamps at whatever rate they happen to be at and sticking your $420 in a money market account.


26 posted on 05/09/2009 6:21:33 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: BlueStateBlues
The thieves edge the price up a cent or two at a time, the frog in the hot water method. Crooks, making our money cheaper and hurting the economy by increments.

The thieves are not the people running the post office, they're the people running the Federal Reserve and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's presses.

The post office doesn't control inflation, the Fed does.

27 posted on 05/09/2009 6:23:42 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: tpmintx

Precious metals are a much better hedge against inflation than mass-market postage stamps.


28 posted on 05/09/2009 6:27:05 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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