stamps, like everything else we are so used to having, will someday soon be phased out, which i hope not. while i'm a sorry ass when it comes to letter writing and i much prefer the faster way of firing off an email, i must admit i enjoy receiving letters or cards from friends, well, some friends, not all. and especially not from relatives. most of the time it's the relatives i don't want to hear from who would write to me. and because i do not readily give out my home address, they do find me on facebook then i go through the rigamarole of blocking them. š
i remember engaging in that activity called 'pen pal'. i always never knew what to tell people so i would dilly-dally about replying until i'd have completely forgotten about it and the other person just gave up on me. there was also a time when i had american and british pen pals. i had the notion that the pen pal business was invented by the post office so that people would buy stamps. even back in the day, stamps going to the states or england were expensive, i had to write my letters in what we used to call "onion skin" paper, paper so thin you cannot write in the back. i did that one time, the american (as usual) pen pal wasn't impressed he actually sent me some kind of very lovely stationery. š¤£
@grammyn - the top stamp, the canadian stamp, was cancelled as shown, while the american stamp (this was actually from you) was not, as the postal cancellation was done on the part of the envelope that had your address.
@summerfield I meant to say the top stamp was canceled, and the bottom one was not. Somewhere I got interrupted before I completed my comment, and my brain just condensed the comment into the wrong thing
Nice! I suck at letter writing tooā¦. And havenāt written one in agesā¦. And I do remember that onion skin paper, as well as special āair mailā forms that you write on and then folded into an envelopeā¦. Yikes! Iām so old! š±
Pretty stamps. Stamps in the US are going up again 2Ā¢ effective tomorrow. The plan is to do this periodically for the next 5 years. šµāš« Packages also going up. Seems the USPS doesn't want people to use their services, but I too like to get good mail - from friends and family.
