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USPS Issues Stamps Worth More Than US Currency
Posted on 05-13-2007 at 06:00:08 pm by Aaron, 143 words, 2848 views Monday the US Postal Service will release it's "forever stamps" -- stamps that will always buy the same amount of postal services, no matter what the current cost is, in dollars/cents. This change is of course coincident with raising the first-class postal rate from $.39 to $.41, and raising other rates as well.
Anyway, this should be interesting: the ability to buy a constant amount of services with "forever" postage stamps makes them, technically, more valuable than US currency, which guarantees no constant amount of services upon tendering. And of course, the persistence of inflation in our craptacular system proves that the lack of such a guarantee really sucks.
I'll be stocking up, probably in books of this attractive Liberty Bell "forever" stamp.
"Liberty Forever" -- has a nice ring to it.
And avoiding inflation on US postage for the forseeable future has its own attraction!
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