It might have been to send my application to join the Partridge Family Fan Club.
Wasn’t the basic idea of a ‘Forever’ stamp that it would always stay at that price?
I guess noting lasts forever, not even a Forever Stamp.
That’s like saying something is ‘Temporarily permanent’.
BIDENOMICS IS WORKING!!!!! Woo Hoo!
I use stamps so infrequently that the forever stamps I find in drawers and use were probably 35 cents at purchase.
Naming stamps “forever” is a classic late Empire move....
Laminate one and bury it deep—so future archaeologists can have a good laugh.
It might have been to send my application to join the Partridge Family Fan Club.
Just wait until UPS goes on strike in August. You think a 5% increase in a first class stamp is high....if the Teamsters get what they are asking for...get ready to pay significantly more to ship a package. $10/hr raises across the board for all full time union employees is just one of the demands. $25/hr immediately for all part timers. Should be fun if they strike. Since USPS can’t strike...they’ll get inundated with packages being diverted to them...more than already happens.
I’ll go get a roll of stamps tomorrow.
Everything goes up except wages...
“...to mail a letter...”
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What is that?
Bought a roll of forever stamps today. It was $63.
The price of stamps remained stable for several years. In the past two decades, the price of a first-class stamp has increased several times. Now, it seems the price increases yearly. However, the quality of service at the USPS has decreased dramatically over those past two decades.
I never trust anything of importance to the affirmative action hires that sort the mail and are entrusted to either deliver it, toss it in the trash (the woods or a ditch), or sell it to someone for a small fee so the buyer can go through it for personal or financial information and gain.
People do whatever they can to avoid mailing letters now. I found out that the cost of mailing a certified return receipt letter is now humongous. About the same as buying a simple fast food meal.
In the later 60s, when in uniform and pennies counted, I recall stamps going up to 6 cents per stamp, and hearing and reading much complaining.
Fast forward to this year's increase.
No big, I can afford it. That's not the issue.
Many folks on fixed incomes and businesses cannot.
And, the reverse multiplier effects are that much less commerce will be done via the mails, and the projected profit from the increases will (my easy guess) will fall substantially short.
From 3 cents to 63 cents in 70 years!
Down to my last twenty Liberty Bell Forever stamps, dated 2009. At about six stamps a year, I’m good for another 3-4 years, but I may buy again this year before the price increases, to hedge my bets. It’s not like the price will go down and they’ll lose value.
קץ time stamp?
July 9 is the 190th day of the year...
Sunday, July 9, 2023
20 Tammuz, 5783
20 Tammuz 5710:
The Law of Return (Hebrew: חוק השבות, ḥok ha-shvūt) is an Israeli law, passed on 5 July 1950...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return
It's the Law! Ordinally, as you can see.
It's amazing how much knowledge accumulates by running these seemingly pointless little trails for wherever they might go. The stuff I can pull out of a hat.. always fun!
Why don’t they just make it an even dollar for a stamp?
This cents thing has always bugged me, nobody sells stamps individually anymore anyway. Just make a book of stamps $10.
I’ve read we now have 23% inflation rate.
She’s gonna BLOW !
Biden MUST GO!
Who still use stamps?
