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Some good thoughts here that will probably ring true to many of us fellow stamp collectors:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/op...5588863.html

Bravo to Allen Abel. I like this text very much. Among others it's the postcard story that I prefer. At home in the living we have a decorative metal work that can hold our postcard and all other kind of cards (christmas, birthday, etc.). During last spring and summer we received postcard from France, Spain and Italy. It's very decorative and also interesting for visitors. I'd like to had something. I really like to check my mailbox when i'm at home as I like to check for email on my computer. Plus when I check my mailbox as I open the door I really feel the temperature outside. Some time I get to meet the postman when I get registered mail. One time I told him it's stamps I receive from all over the world, he had a big smile.

Thanks wt1 for your thread.

I'm glad to hear that the rate is not going up. That's a good thing. The following quote from that article can be looked at another way though.




The Post Office has been raising their rates by leaps and bounds for a quite a few years now. It just seems as soon as we swallowed the last rate increase, we were being hit by another. Along come things like email, Facebook, and Twitter. So, what did the Postal Service expect? The more they raise the rates the more people will use those services. Catch 22? Most definitely, but not only did the Postal Service not consider the current economy, they under estimated the use of the internet. This is the age of the Internet Superhighway after all.

My one question is though, and I was shocked to see that this was being suggested by the United States Postal Service, was that they want to discontinue the use of residential mailboxes? Are they talking about things like the large walls of mail boxes that are in apartment buildings and the traditional mailboxes on the side of the roads for homeowners? If they are trying to have Saturday mail delivery discontinued, why have the residential mailboxes removed from what they have to service? Are they trying to get people to come to the post office to pick up their mail?

Donna

I don't know if you read the article I posted on a different thread about whether the Forever Stamp would ever become a good investment, but quoted in that article was the following:




It seems to me this contradicts the Postal Service's argument to raise postage above the rate of inflation.

As for the residental boxes, I may be wrong, but I view that as the old door-to-door delivery of a postman with a sack across his shoulder. The new way of delivery is, as you have suggested, the bank of mailboxes as at an apartment complex, or the rural box and the end of the driveway of a single family home (i.e. so the postman need not get out of his truck to deliver the mail down the street.)

In fact, I used to live next to a brand new cul-de-sac where they erected a sub-development of brand new and very expensive single family homes, but they put a community mailbox at the end of the street for delivery to all of the houses on the street. It's the trend of the future, I think.

Great article wt1

Thanks for sharing it with us.


Dianne