Rise of the Stamps
I just found out they're raising the price of stamps again, starting Jan. 1st they're going to 39 cents a piece. This is outrageous. It seems like only yesterday they were only 34 cents. Wait, it was yesterday. Damn it. Why isn't there some sort of vote for this? If my vote doesn't get to count for who's president at least let me vote for the price of stamps. What's next? Coffe goes over a dollar per cup? Wait a minute, I paid $4.29 for this goddamned mocha! And since when is a regular-sized candybar eighty cents? A bottle of pop $1.29?
I better stop now. I feel like Andy Rooney.
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14 comments:
There's Old Man Blogagaard chasing kids off his front lawn again.
Good to hear from you, Inspektor. We here at Blogagaard we worried you'd disappeared to fight crime.
Snail mail is so last century. Welcome to teh intranet!
I think we should abandon the USPS entirely and set up a separate postal system, a postal cooperative, a la 'The Crying of Lot 49', only maybe not as creepy. Maybe more creepy, depending on how we feel at the time.
Actually, I like the usps. They seem to never lose anything. At least for me. And, I have no idea how fedex or ups actually works. They fly in every package to one location, no matter where it's from, and fly it out again? What? So if I try to send a package to the guy next door, via ups, they fly it to atlanta and back and the overall result of this system is more efficient?
I still likes paper. Likes paper and the stamps.
I don't know, CLurg. Maybe we should say fuck it and burn everything, start over. Bring back the carrier pigeon!
Get some carrier monkeys and I'll be on your side. Until then, I'll deliver everything by hand.
What I want is no taxation without equal representation! This is bullshit!
And maybe to throw some tea over the side of a cargo vessel. That might be good, too.
Oh, and I want an X-Box 360.
I fear the 360. It's power...haunts me.
Men have been known to go insane from Xbox 360's mind ray feature, included standard.
I think we should rise up and refuse to buy fancy coffee drinks. I don't really drink 'em myself, so it's not like _I'd_ be giving anything up.
But still.
I don't know. I love a good mocha. Mocha madness!
Hey man, you've got until Jan 8th to use up your 37 cent stamps. May this be the week of the letter! I've got a stack of 15 ready to go.
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