There Are Always Some Who Try To Cheat The USPS!

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Dear John: I might, just might, have found a way to save you, me and everyone in the sound of our voice gazillions of dollars.
In the latest round of US Postal Service price increases, which raised the cost of mailing a one-ounce No. 10 envelope to 49 cents, there's a bit of relief for users of postal meters.

Instead of 49 cents, businesses that use postal strips instead of stamps can send their standard first-class mail at the bargain rate of just 48 cents.

Now it turns out that the automated postal kiosks in post office lobbies, in addition to their other options, will let you print up any value postage strip you want. For example, you might ask it for some 21-cent strips to cover the second ounce of a multi-page letter.
So I figured I'd have it print out a bunch of 48-cent stamps. I attached these to a bunch of envelopes, mailed them out, and they all reached their destinations with no problems.

That's a full 2 percent savings over the 49-cent "forever" stamp.
I think I've solved our budget-gap issues. D.B.

Dear D.B.: And you've created new problems for the US Postal Service, which I happen to like.

In fact I like my letter carrier so much that I was tempted not to publicize your little scheme to cheat the post office out of that extra penny.

But in the end, I liked your ingenuity. So here's the letter.

And, yes, I did receive the letter from you with just 48-cent postage on it. So your plan worked.

But depending on how many of these "test" letters you sent out, it'll probably be 2016 before this scheme actually turns a profit for you.
Be sure to send me a Christmas card with the discounted postage and we'll see if postal officials have figured out a way to stop this inadvertent discount.

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Dear D.B.