Stamp Fever
I have a weakness for buying stamps. I like having lots of different designs to choose from - I even buy special "boring" stamps for bills to make my pretty stamps for friends even more special. Stamps are one of those things I can always justify to myself; even when I don't need them now, I will need them sometime, won't I?
The result being that now that postage goes up in a few days, I have dozens of decorative stamps that now need a companion 2-cent stamp to get my letters where they're going. So I logged on to USPS.com to see what my options were. Look what met my eye! Here are the stamps I want to buy:
I actually already knew about the book stamps, and of course, planned to buy them, but I didn't know they were coming out so soon. And look at the darling new LOVE stamp! I love it. But the last thing I should do right now is buy new decorative stamps, when I have to use up all my 37-cent stamps. But look at my 2-cent stamp option:
It's okay, I guess, but nothing to make my heart leap with joy (isn't that what stamps are supossed to do?). Well, I think you all know what I did. I bought them all. I'll always have to send letters, right?
The result being that now that postage goes up in a few days, I have dozens of decorative stamps that now need a companion 2-cent stamp to get my letters where they're going. So I logged on to USPS.com to see what my options were. Look what met my eye! Here are the stamps I want to buy:
I actually already knew about the book stamps, and of course, planned to buy them, but I didn't know they were coming out so soon. And look at the darling new LOVE stamp! I love it. But the last thing I should do right now is buy new decorative stamps, when I have to use up all my 37-cent stamps. But look at my 2-cent stamp option:
It's okay, I guess, but nothing to make my heart leap with joy (isn't that what stamps are supossed to do?). Well, I think you all know what I did. I bought them all. I'll always have to send letters, right?
posted by Catherine Elizabeth | 1:47 PM
2 Comments:
I hadn't realized that you could buy stamps online. I may have to do that. I missed the Muppetts stamps last year because when I first went to buy them for Lily's birthday invitations, our little post office didn't have them and then when I next went to buy them for Christmas cards, they were out.
I was standing in line at the post office last week (I seem to do that a lot these days) and saw the poster for the children's book stamps. I immediately thought of you. I am glad to see that they are all cute! Usually there are one or two good ones that I have to ration out for special people and all the rest are ho-hum. I have to say that I was disappointed with the Muppet stamps. They were not nearly as charming as I had hoped. Good thing, otherwise I would have bought tons of them and then I would be in the same boat as you! Maybe you should start sending postcards, Catherine. Then you wouldn't need the 2 cent stamp.
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