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> Seriously!...  Even quite a while after I'd moved out to my own place
> I was sending out probably 60 letters a year, but when they decided
> to double the price on stamps, that dropped to about 15 letters a year
> and the next big raise in stamps had me hardly sending out anything.
> I buy 10-packs of stamps to save money, and one of those usually lasts
> me about 3 years now..  Obviously eMail and paying bills online made
> that a lot easier.

Sounds like the US!  ;)

> Somewhere in there they stopped putting a value on regular stamps.
> A first class stamp price was going up so fast there was no point.

They also did that here.  Here they call them "Forever" stamps.  I buy a
couple of "cards" with roughly 20 stamps each on them.  If the price goes
up in the meantime, I can just keep using the "Forever" stamps until I run
out.

Mike

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