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Posted by Peter Rosa on Mon Apr 27 13:52:52 2009 We rarely use postage stamps Chez Peter. Nearly all bills get paid online or via direct debit, and e-mail and texting has long since replaced snail mail for personal communications. Yesterday, however, I had something that really did need to get mailed. I knew we had a sheet containing several self-adhesive stamps, but of course it was nowhere to be found. Chances are the sheet got put in a drawer sometime ago and no one remembers exactly where. Or maybe the cats ate it.So today at lunch I strolled over to the cavernous post office branch at the corner of Church and Vesey. There were only one or two windows open (out of many, though I didn't count to get a specific number), and of course the lines were endless. But wait! There were these nifty new self-service machines with touch screens, and in less than a minute I got to use one. It turns out that the nifty new machines don't sell single stamps. The smallest quantity you can buy is a sheet of 18. I wasn't about to buy that many, as given our very low consumption rate most of them would probably just get lost before being used. What you can buy, however, is a single stamp in any amount you select, with a minimum of one dollar. So I end up spending a dollar for a single "custom denomination" stamp, instead of being able to buy a single, "normal" first class stamp for 42 cents (or whatever postage has gone up to). There's your post office "logic." Oh, to add insult to injury, the machines don't take cash, so I had to use my Visa card for a one dollar purchase. That's so SWPL-ly it's pathetic. My LIRR/NYCT blog |
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