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   Message 789 of 1,128   
   Mike Powell to ROB MCCART   
   Canada Post no longer rai   
   12 Aug 25 10:11:01   
   
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   > 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.   
      
   Sounds like the US!  ;)   
      
   > 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.   
      
   They also did that here.  Here they call them "Forever" stamps.  I buy a   
   couple of "cards" with roughly 20 stamps each on them.  If the price goes   
   up in the meantime, I can just keep using the "Forever" stamps until I run   
   out.   
      
   Mike   
      
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