When I was trying to think of something that cost a dollar I thought of the Halloween items at Target. Then I thought, STAMPS! In April 2007 the U S Postal Service began issuing Forever stamps. Which means no matter what you pay for a stamp at the post office, you can use it forever. I have several full sheets of pre 2007 stamps that have the postage amount on them. I like to put them on personal cards and letters and complete the amount needed to mail them with various, pretty stamps. In my photo today the nineteen cent envelope and penny postcard have assorted stamps on them totaling a dollar.
This reminds me of my stamp collecting days. We spent ours looking for unusual stamps & fixing them into books under the right country heading...funny I had comp,etely forgotten that but it all comes rushing back. A very interesting collection there!
Very interesting collection Lou Ann it would be a same to use them, clearly its much cheaper to post a letter in the states, a standard letter cost £1.15p to post here or approximately $1.53 in your money, lol:)
@happypat when we travel in other countries I always go to their post office and buy a few stamps, I hope one of my grandsons will want to put them in stamp books. 😊
@pcoulson First Class mail today is
$ .55 for a one ounce piece of mail. Our post office is struggling right now though, we are all terrified it will be privatized and that $ .55 stamp will go up to $2.00.
@grammyn I have a friend who is an interior decorator, she likes to frame a sheet of the pretty stamps to put in people’s home offices. She’s been after my Marilyn Monroe stamp sheet For years. I told her I would leave it to her in my will. 😊
@louannwarren Great idea! Your postage seems very cheap Lou Ann...I think our first class stamp is around 65p...hard to remember as I just ask fir a book if first class stamps. It’s more if envelope isn’t bigger or fatter than a certain size...it has to fit through a certain size slot if it looks big. Not sure how much that is in $$
Guessing double?
This might have been taken on my own desk! I never got so far as buying the Forever Stamps! I already had stashed away enough (because they were like buying pieces of art!) *to last me Forever*!
September 3rd, 2020
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$ .55 for a one ounce piece of mail. Our post office is struggling right now though, we are all terrified it will be privatized and that $ .55 stamp will go up to $2.00.
Guessing double?