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Rogue
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Since: 08-17-04

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Posted on 01-09-06 12:41 AM Link | Quote
Starting today, it's $0.39 to mail that card or whatever it is you actually use snail mail for any more, rendering those $0.37 stamps you bought last week USELESS.

US Postal Service


(Last edited by Rogue on 01-09-06 03:42 AM)
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Posted on 01-09-06 02:24 AM Link | Quote
Yeah, found that out the hard way since my job uses snail mail a lot ot send out invoices. My boss wasn't too happy and neither am I for that matter, but what can you do.
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Since: 08-15-04
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Posted on 01-09-06 06:31 AM Link | Quote
I've been hearing this all over the news for the past few days...it kinda sucks actually. I mean some could look at it and say "It's only two cents." But at the same time, it's the little things that are the killers. I mean think about it...$0.74 if you wanted 2 stamps...I need 2 stamps for each high school transfer I have sent out...and each transfer is 3 bucks...crap adds up.
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Since: 12-29-04
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Posted on 01-09-06 09:09 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Rogue
rendering those $0.37 stamps you bought last week USELESS.


are you sure they still won't honor the .37? i find it hard to believe that they would actually throw away mail that still uses the old stamps...
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Posted on 01-09-06 09:11 PM Link | Quote
What's worse?

Today Pepsi, or whoever brings in cola's for our pop machine at work changed the price from $1.00, to $1.25.

Ridiculous.


(Last edited by Xeo on 01-10-06 12:11 AM)
Jity Horo

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Posted on 01-09-06 09:26 PM Link | Quote
Actully the .37 cents stamps won't be useless. You will just need to buy a .02 cent to go along with it.
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Since: 12-29-04
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Posted on 01-09-06 10:35 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Xeo
What's worse?

Today Pepsi, or whoever brings in cola's for our pop machine at work changed the price from $1.00, to $1.25.

Ridiculous.


i heard they're going to make a machine that varies the price depending on the current temperature. as in, the hotter, the higher the price goes...
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Posted on 01-09-06 11:14 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Xeo
What's worse?

Today Pepsi, or whoever brings in cola's for our pop machine at work changed the price from $1.00, to $1.25.

Ridiculous.



Boy do I feel sorry for you. at my work it's $.75 for a bottle of soda.

But unfortunetly they took the machine out for some reason, . I think it was because the fumigated the place or something or other, I dont know.lol

But the stamps are just like anything else, they will keep getting more and more expensive as year's go by. And probobly because regular mail is becoming more and more obsoleet as time goes on. We have E-mail and Fax now. So why wait so long to get something when you can send or recieve with just a touch of a button.
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Posted on 01-09-06 11:17 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by avatar of law
Originally posted by Rogue
rendering those $0.37 stamps you bought last week USELESS.


are you sure they still won't honor the .37? i find it hard to believe that they would actually throw away mail that still uses the old stamps...



Actually they won't, they expect you to buy those one and two cent stamps to meet the new price. All the post offices around my work are filled with people trying to buy those. One of the post office sold out.
Rogue
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Posted on 01-10-06 01:30 AM Link | Quote
Yeah, there wasn't a grace period. If it doesn't have the $0.39 or more, they'll return the letter, if there's a return address marked, of course.

If you're laxy, you could double up, but $0.78 to mail a standard letter can get steep.
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Posted on 01-10-06 10:18 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Drizzt DoUrden
But the stamps are just like anything else, they will keep getting more and more expensive as year's go by. And probobly because regular mail is becoming more and more obsoleet as time goes on. We have E-mail and Fax now. So why wait so long to get something when you can send or recieve with just a touch of a button.


good point, but if you think about it if we had a way to do that with objects the postal service goes bye bye. Like Willy Wonka!
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Since: 09-05-04
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Posted on 01-10-06 12:30 PM Link | Quote
I usually overprice my letters anyways. I cant exactly keep track of how much letters cost to be sent out so I put two stamps on the cover of the letter anyway...though its not a good money saver....=.=;;; Ive already wasted well over 5$ in my lifetime on stamps...I have too many friends I have to keep track of...

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Posted on 01-11-06 03:59 PM Link | Quote
I believe I've only mailed a few letters out in my lifetime, and nothing really recent either. I use good old e-mail to get my "mailing services" done. But just be grateful that we're not anywhere close to the $1 mark yet. At the rate stamp prices are going up, I don't foresee that happening in any of our lifetimes.
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