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Am I the only one who didn't know postage went up again?
I went to get the mail today and there was a little slip of paper from my mail lady telling me the postage went up .01 on May 12th, but that she put the stamp on my letter for me, and that I owe her $.01. I am usually up on these things. Guess they didn't advertise this one very well. I knew I should have saved those forever stamps I bought
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I only found out the night before it happened because I happened to be watching the late local news (which I rarely, if ever, do) and they mentioned it. Oddly enough, I had run out of stamps 2-3 days earlier and when I bought a new book, the lady gave me Forever stamps . . . good thing too because I had things ready to go into the mailbox the morning of the increase.
I can't keep up with the postage stamp prices anymore. I am glad I saw this thread though. I sent Robin a letter last week and I have not seen my .01 bill yet. I guess I should be looking for it.
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I didn't know it was going up either. But, get this, I went to the Post Office the Friday before the change and asked for a book of stamps. Now, we all know dude behind the counter is fully aware postage is about to go up.....you'd think he would tell me but no. He sold me the book of stamps, that were not able to be used Monday when I placed them on my envelopes. Why didn't dude tell me to get the forever stamps? I mean, really, would it have been that hard? That would have been the nice thing to do.......
I'm finished venting now. So, no, you are not the only one who didn't know....I'm in the boat with you.
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Don't worry - I don't have a clue how much postage is over here any longer, as I only ever buy books of stamps and they come in eithe six or 12 - it's not easy trying to work out the individual cost of a stamp from that! :
Our TV stations had done a good job of letting everyone know it was going up. I just didn't remember the date! Fortunately I have a large collection of wierd stamps left over from Dad - he mailed packages and had a huge assortment of various value stamps! I keep trying to match up the values and combine them to use up all the wierd ones, but have never seemed to accomplish much in the way of using down all the various stamps. But at least my envelopes are colorful!
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I didn't know either. I had gone to the post office a week before the increase and bought two rolls of 100 stamps and the lady behind the counter never said anything about an increase.
They had a story on the news about it in April for a few days in a row. I believe it said that now every May will be the time postage rates increase, if there is an increase. I also think they listed the day as the 12th or 13th- something sort of odd- why not the 1st? Anyway, I've given up on the cute stamps and have been only getting forever stamps for a while now. The only good thing is that as I've switched to online banking, I rarely need any stamps!
What in the world is a forever stamp? That sounds interesting!
I'm like Chez, I never know how much postage is anymore. Once it got to the point where it's over 50c to mail a letter here and a buck to mail one to the USA, I just gave up keeping track, and I go to the postal counter every time I need a stamp now. It's no biggie because our letter carriers don't take mail to be posted anyway, so since I have to go to a box to mail anything - may as well just go to the counter.
Forever stamps are good no matter what the price goes up to. It actually says "Forever" on them. Prices wne tup so often (and still are) that the USPS came up with this because people would have whole rolls or books of stamps that had been purchased and then could not be used...people felt ripped off. I used them anyway...just doubled up...but never got the difference back, but otherwise, I would have lost the $13 + spent for the stamps and had to buy new ones to boot.
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