Are Stamps Nearly Dead?

[Tom Sweetnam]

I pay every bill I have with bank account auto-pay or via automatic Visa charge; every bill but one: my mortgage payment. It's just a sentimental throwback. I reckon I do it because I've always been fascinated with stamps, and paying my mortgage payment with a check, an envelope, and a stamp, gives me the opportunity to buy a cool sheet of new stamps at the post office a couple of times a year.

I paid this month's mortgage payment with one of the new Batman stamps, an 8 design series on a sheet of 20 stamps. They're really cool. I may buy another sheet just to keep. But you want to hear something stupid? I drive eight miles into town to go to the post office to mail my mortgage payment to the bank that's two buildings down from the post office. Hey, I told you it was a sentimental throwback.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

We auto-pay too but still, I just bought two pages of Harvey Milk stamps.

 

[Sunni Man]

We auto-pay too but still, I just bought two pages of Harvey Milk stamps.

No doubt you enjoy licking those before affixing them to the envelope. (even though they already have adhesive on them) .....

 

[Pogo]

I paid this month's mortgage payment with one of the new Batman stamps, an 8 design series on a sheet of 20 stamps. They're really cool. I may buy another sheet just to keep. But you want to hear something stupid? I drive eight miles into town to go to the post office to mail my mortgage payment to the bank that's two buildings down from the post office. Hey, I told you it was a sentimental throwback.

Actually I heard something stupid when you posted that there's such a thing as a "Batman stamp".

 

[Tom Sweetnam]

I paid this month's mortgage payment with one of the new Batman stamps, an 8 design series on a sheet of 20 stamps. They're really cool. I may buy another sheet just to keep. But you want to hear something stupid? I drive eight miles into town to go to the post office to mail my mortgage payment to the bank that's two buildings down from the post office. Hey, I told you it was a sentimental throwback.

Actually I heard something stupid when you posted that there's such a thing as a "Batman stamp".

Sniffing glue tonight?

The new set is first on left, top row.

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[Pogo]

Um... I didn't mean you're stupid for posting that there's a Batman stamp. I meant the fact that somebody put out a Batman stamp is stupid.

Then again the city I was born in has a statue of an entirely ficticious character on its Art Museum steps. We live in a world where fantasy is indistinguishable from reality.

 

[Bill Angel]

In 2012 100 million taxpayers still filed their federal income tax forms via paper. And the federal government makes you pay for the postage. That's a demand for stamps that will still be around for a while.

 

[Pogo]

In 2012 100 million taxpayers still filed their federal income tax forms via paper. And the federal government makes you pay for the postage. That's a demand for stamps that will still be around for a while.

Yeah I'm one of them. Wouldn't dream of filing info like that online, and what happened in South Carolina is exactly why.