Comments on Coffee Bean Goddess: Going Postal

Dee - I had a special experience with the postal r...

2007-05-19T20:01:00.000-07:00

Dee - I had a special experience with the postal rate increase. I said I was going to the PO and would get stamps to make make the old versions useful. As it turned out, my husband gave me a post-it with various denominations and the numbers we had. Made for instant mind-math at the post office! Ah - the things we do to keep the mind active.
Jeri

I did the same thing, Dee, when they explained the...

2007-05-15T07:11:00.000-07:00

I did the same thing, Dee, when they explained the Forever price stamps to me. I realized that they were telling me there WILL be future rises in postage rates.

Oh, darn, you would mention Tim Tams, sigh. This one specialty store we have in our area sells them off the shelf. It's an inflated price but for a once in a year treat it seemed worth it. Oh, no, Jo, deleted that thought immediately from your inventory.

Wil is determined the Forever stamp is not a guran...

2007-05-15T04:14:00.000-07:00

Wil is determined the Forever stamp is not a gurantee (sp?) that we won't have to tack more postage on when the rates go up.

And they wonder why they have lost business to email.

I think my Christmas card list is going way down.

They've not long since done the same thing here wi...

2007-05-15T00:49:00.000-07:00

They've not long since done the same thing here with post office rates. The queues in post offices have at least doubled in length. And the response to that? Yup. They're shutting thousands of rural post offices.

Feels like a sinister world wide plot to remove us all from the postal age.