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   RM>> I grew up in a very rural farming area - we didn't farm but we had   
     >> a few acres and horses - and the mailbox was a fair ways from the   
     >> house and the mailman used to put the flag up if he left you mail   
     >> saving you a walk out there for nothing..   
      
   MP>That makes sense except when you put something out, and raise the flag, how   
     >do you know it is not still up because he's not been yet?   
      
   That could be a problem I guess. I suppose we didn't go out to get mail   
   until quite a while after the mail would have been delivered.   
      
   MP>Now it is very rare that there is anything outgoing in the box but, back   
     >when I was a kid, it seemed like we had mail going out and coming in almost   
     >daily... bills, letters, etc., that were commonplace before the electronic   
     >age.   
      
   Seriously!...  Even quite a while after I'd moved out to my own place   
   I was sending out probably 60 letters a year, but when they decided   
   to double the price on stamps, that dropped to about 15 letters a year   
   and the next big raise in stamps had me hardly sending out anything.   
   I buy 10-packs of stamps to save money, and one of those usually lasts   
   me about 3 years now..  Obviously eMail and paying bills online made   
   that a lot easier.   
      
   Somewhere in there they stopped putting a value on regular stamps.   
   A first class stamp price was going up so fast there was no point.   
      
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