It is obviously time to get serious about discount postage. It's not just for dealers mailing out approvals. It's for the general public, especially businesses and charities. Thus the need for a unit of value: dollars per square meter.
Some people shun 5¢ stamps because they take up too much area, especially on packages, but obviously 10¢ Apollo-Soyuz takes up more space than two 5¢ definitives, so denomination alone is not the problem.
If a stamp measures 20 mm by 30 mm, that is 600 mm² or 0.0006 m². You could fit 1666 2/3 of them in one square meter. If the face value is $0.06, that works out to $100/m² (one hundred dollars per square meter.) If a mailer sends out lots of packages, small 15¢ definitives might be better than large 20¢ commemoratives. On letters, the 47¢ combination is important, but not so much on packages. The 3¢ commemoratives can still be used up one at a time, even on small first-class letters along with a pair of 22¢ stamps.
Dealers offering discount postage should advertise the value in dollars per square meter in addition to other descriptions.
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Posted 06/22/2016 6:35 pm
