We have until May to purchase "forever" stamps--meaning that if the price of a stamp goes up, up, up, these stamps will be good until you use them up. We mail fewer and fewer items per month and have been deciding how many we ought to buy.
Thursday, I mailed a book to Jason in St. Louis. I had the clerk quote me a price on first class postage. For $23.60, it could have arrived on Jason's doorstep overnight.
Instead, I mailed it media mail, $3.28, plus a certified mail sticker to make sure this apartment dweller actually receives it. No telling when it will arrive...which gives my tightwad sensibility a great deal of pleasure. Keep the first edition, Jason.
About Me
Blogs I Read
Labels
- 100 things (1)
- afterlife (1)
- airport (1)
- American (1)
- bachelors (1)
- barbecue (1)
- bargains (2)
- BBQ (1)
- beer (2)
- belly dance (1)
- beverages (2)
- blessings (1)
- blindness (1)
- blues (1)
- boomerang parents (1)
- camera (1)
- carbon monoxide (1)
- cats (1)
- change (1)
- cigarettes (1)
- circus (1)
- Civil War (2)
- coffee (1)
- collections (2)
- community (1)
- commute (1)
- concrete (1)
- construction (1)
- convent (1)
- corny (1)
- coupons (1)
- courthouse (1)
- creative writing (2)
- creativity (2)
- crop art (1)
- dance (2)
- databases (1)
- de Botton (1)
- deep travel (1)
- design (1)
- domestic abuse (2)
- dowsing (1)
- dumps (1)
- Easterlin paradox (1)
- eating out (1)
- economy (1)
- education (2)
- eggs (1)
- elephants (2)
- eulogy (1)
- extreme sports (1)
- eye strain (1)
- feet (1)
- fiction (1)
- fiddle (1)
- films (1)
- fire (1)
- flood (1)
- frugality (29)
- gas prices (1)
- geocache (1)
- ghosts (1)
- gifts (2)
- goats (2)
- gongs (1)
- GPS (1)
- graffiti (1)
- grandchildren (2)
- green (1)
- hard times (1)
- hate crimes (1)
- history (2)
- hitchhiking (1)
- home economics (1)
- homelessness (1)
- homemaking (2)
- Housework (1)
- identity (1)
- illiteracy (1)
- immigrants (2)
- Indians (1)
- indigenous peoples (2)
- innocence (1)
- intention (1)
- inventions (3)
- John Brown (1)
- Kansas (1)
- Kansas icons (1)
- library (1)
- lodging (1)
- Luddite (2)
- marbles (1)
- mental health (1)
- meth (1)
- missionaries (1)
- money (1)
- Music (3)
- name of (1)
- natural disasters (1)
- neighbors (2)
- newbie (1)
- news (2)
- newspaper (1)
- Osawatomie (2)
- Oz (1)
- paint (1)
- Paola (24)
- parade (1)
- pets (3)
- piggy banks (1)
- plot (1)
- poetry (2)
- police (1)
- popcorn (1)
- post office (1)
- postage (1)
- poverty (1)
- produce (1)
- pumpkins (1)
- quail (1)
- reading (1)
- recipes (1)
- red hats (1)
- rent (2)
- rentals (2)
- retreats (1)
- rhetoric (2)
- road kill (3)
- roadside attractions (1)
- RTW (1)
- safety (1)
- scavengers (1)
- Seven Wonders (3)
- shoes (4)
- silent movie (1)
- souveniers (1)
- springs (1)
- stock market (1)
- stockpiling (1)
- street signs (1)
- sublets (1)
- submission guidelines (1)
- superheros (1)
- tenant (1)
- tenants (10)
- tenants. (1)
- theatre (1)
- thrift stores (1)
- tin toys (1)
- tobacco (1)
- tomatoes (1)
- tourism (1)
- town squares (1)
- tracks (1)
- trains (2)
- travel (31)
- trends (1)
- TV (1)
- underground railroad (1)
- urban legends (1)
- vandalism (1)
- ventilation (1)
- vibrators (1)
- weather (3)
- weeds (1)
- wildlife (2)
- wireless (1)
- words (1)
- WPA (1)
Blog Archive
Buzz Feed
site meter
10 comments:
I love sending and receiving mail. It makes me feel important. That said, $23 is a lot of money (you could drive one way to STL and just give it to me for that amount).
Anyway, thank you for sending me this book. I'll read it and send it back post-haste!
By the way, thank you for mentioning me in yet another post. I LOVE it.
;)
Oh, and I've never heard of these "forever" stamps...but I'm going to buy a SHIT load.
I am glad you wrote about the forever stamps. I had not heard of them, and I am always one denomination behind in stamps, it seems.
Jason--no need to return the book, it's yours. If you feel guilty about that--pass it on.
Larry--we can't decide whether we'll buy any at all. Typically, I purchase stamps in rolls of 100 and I have bunches of small denomination stamps left over from former postal increases.
Wow, thanks Terri.
Got the book today, again--thank you very much Terri.
And I received your snail mail letter--blushing about your comments.
I'm glad you got that. I want you to know that I meant what I wrote--I liked your book, and wish you'd write another.
You acted so scared when I said I was going to read it, too...
酒店兼職
酒店打工 打工兼差 台北酒店 酒店兼差 酒店經紀 禮服酒店 酒店工作
酒店 酒店PT 酒店上班
酒店喝酒 酒店消費 喝花酒 粉味
Post a Comment