Anxiety said:

Wow, I'm impressed!
Still, the stamps.....wasted.

OK I have come to terms with this and I think the ONLY solution is a legal and binding one. I think if you're into loaning stamps you need to have a written agreement or verbal one if you trust said loanee.

obsessed said:

this is why i have the forever stamps and you don't.

Anxiety said:

I'd pay "going" rate...

obsessed said:

you're playing right into their hands! just give the post office a set of your house keys and a blank check while you're at it!

what's a forever stamp?

LittleSmedley said:

www.foreverstamp.com

Anxiety said:

All humor set aside, I honestly don't think that the postal service is
robbing us....I look at it this way.....would you deliver a piece of
mail to, (lets say China for the sake of clarity), for 42 cents?

I know I wouldn't....and the price really hasn't gone up by leaps and
bounds...if it started doing that, I may feel differently...but for now,
I'm ok with the price of stamps.

Where I feel a bit more robbed is with the price of mailing a package...
now if they could work something out for that, we'd have something.

obsessed said:

ok, seriously - you have a good point, though i can't keep up with the increases in stamp prices. i don't mail things very often, so when i do i usually have stamps that i bought a year or so ago. at this rate, whatever stamps i have are obsolete and i have to use two or else buy postcard stamps...so it just makes sense for me to have a book of forever stamps, since i use stamps so infrequently.

packages i don't mind so much, because i just use the self-serve postage meter at the post office. easy peasey.

yet another dazzlingly fey topic. Anx. Love you til tuesday x

LittleSmedley said:

you know me. finger on the pulse.

Anxiety said:

The difference in my case is that I mail packages fairly frequently,
and the cost is really outrageous...to send anything heavy is almost
out of the equation....guess I was saying, if there was a way to stop
the increase on mailing packages, etc, I'd be happy to see that. I'm
more concerned about the cost, and not so much the convenience
or inconvenience.

Now back to more fun stuff!
Whatever that might be....

obsessed said:

Oh Oh. This is going to bring us into the wilderness that is the Flat Rate Box.

MoonSongs said:

if i took my time, i could probably turn this comment into a particularly unsavory sexual pun.

i will refrain.

MoonSongs said:

Well if you didn't know, there already is a flat box rate..
unfortunately, they make certain you can't get much in it.....

*explodes* robot do not like paradoxes or hard questions..

I'm sorry, maybe this has already been asked/answered, but what exactly is the cost of a forever stamp. I mean how much do you pay for it at the time you buy it? Is it fixed? And if so (or even if not), then how is that price determined?

forever stamps -the new savings bonds.

Anxiety said:

no question, I would demand the current rate

but let's deconstruct this image for a moment
FOREVER? Does the bell represent some kind of entrance into eternity, represented by the undying spirit of the U.S.A., yet ironically signifying its own mortality by an aged crack across its face... and how will it look when we reach forever and there is this little "2007" on the left side. Will numbers even continue to have meaning? Will nations even exist? Will the value of the stamp cease to have measurable value and become purely symbolic? Is this a spiritual message?

fuck that, base it on FUTURE VALUE.

R3V said:

Forever stamps cost whatever first class stamps cost at the time. If you were to buy forever stamps last week, they would cost 41¢ each. If you were to buy them after postage rates increased on Monday of this week, they would cost 42¢ each.

sextonseven said:

so then why doesn't everyone just always buy forever stamps if the price you're paying is the same as the regular kind?
[Edited 5/15/08 11:27am]

R3V said:

because people are *FOOLS*

Anxiety said:

that's mental

Anxiety said:

NO!!!! NO!!!! NO!!!!!
It's because Star Wars stamps, or the Spider Series, or the Curious George, or Northern Lights Stamps (ie Commemoratives) are not the Forever stamps. Using the wonderful stamps that depict ones fantasy brings a tiny bit of individuality to the mundane.

MoonSongs said:

I always ask for the plainest, most basic, non-commemorative stamp they've got i don't know why.

MoonSongs said:

i got darin star wars stamps for christmas.

i loved the old skool comic book superhero stamps, but i used them all up when i sent out christmas cards last year. they looked cuter on people's envelopes than tacked to my bulletin board.

MoonSongs said:

I was thinking that too. Those forever stamps are fugly.

Anxiety said:

I bought both of those too and I thought about not using them for 30 seconds...they're too cute!

applekisses said:

you know, i have to agree with you there. you'd think if they're going to make something called FOREVER stamps, they'd pick a design that maybe you wouldn't mind looking at for, oh, i don't know, FOREVER??!

put some unicorns on that shit. pictures of iman and sade. duelling robots. imago's underwear. SOMETHING.