Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
BroadwaySinger2
Leading Actor Joined: 4/12/07
#1Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 9:01am
As of today, all USA first-class stamps cost 41 cents a piece.
http://www.usps.com/prices/
Updated On: 5/13/07 at 09:01 AM
#2re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 9:02amBLAH!
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#2re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 10:18am
But the second ounce has dropped to 17 cents from 24 for letters.
If you mail a large envelope they are nailing you 80 cents for the first ounce which is a ripoff. More expensive for actors to send headshot photos, for example.
I hate the way the post office webpage does this downloadable file crap instead of just giving you pages you can click to with the info you want. I don't want their stupid files on my computer and it is so lazy of them:
http://www.usps.com/ratecase/
#3re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 10:23amDammit I just got Judy Garland stamps...now I need those penny ones.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#4re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 10:26amThey've been 48c here for ages, and that's about 60c in USD.
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#5re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 10:30am
Holly, if it's a 39 cents stamp like my Longfellow ones you are can get 2 cent stamps.
Where are you, vmlinnie, that it has been 48 cents in foreign currency?
Updated On: 5/13/07 at 10:30 AM
#6re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 10:38amhe's in Ireland, nom......
#7re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 10:45amThis has been a rockin' year for stamps. Full of gay icons. We of course had the lovely Judy Garland stamp, a Tallulah Bankhead stamp, and the Hattie McDaniel stamp.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#8re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 10:49am
actually it's tomorrow the rates go into effect, anything in a USPS or a mailbox collection point today will go out at 39 cents.
And as linnie points out, we are far cheaper than almost anywhere else.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#9re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 10:55am
Yup, Ireland. 48c as in Euro.
We have crap stamps here. We have really cheesy christmas ones, and the rest of the year it's birds. Lots of different birds. And before we changed to the Euro what were on our coins? Yup, birds.
Booo-ring.
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#11re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 11:05amBut no-one ever knew which way they were supposed to be! Everyone thought that the bird side was the 'face' of the coin, but in fact it was supposed to be the back, the harp on the other side was the 'front'. So, instead of heads or tails, we had harps or wings. We suck so much!
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#12re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 11:21amOh Lord. Can you imagine if George Bush ever gets put on a coin? I have a feeling it would look something like that little fella there in your avatar, linnie.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#13re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 11:21amYou saying the Irish don't know how to flip the bird?
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#14re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 11:28amWhoa, where have I been? I didn't know stamps were going up.
#15re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 12:13pmPraise Jesus and thank God for email.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#16re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 12:14pmAs more & more people use email, less & less people will use regular mail. the Post office will be forced to raises rates quicker. I give this new rate about 2 years
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#17re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 12:53pmI was just watching 'leave it to beaver' and June was telling Ward that Wally and The Beaver asked her for a 4 cent stamp. -1958.
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#18re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 12:57pmMan, they only just changed it from 37 to 39!
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#19re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 1:11pm
Yes, and the Post Office couldn't get anything delivered on time if they tried.
Is it a wonder that they are so hated? The employees at my local PO are the laziest, and most rude employees I've ever met.
One example: I had 4 boxes shipped to me from Michigan. 3 of them were filled with CD's and the fourth was items that had been in my family for years. All were insured.
The CD's arrived fine, but the box with the irreplaceable items looked like it had been through the wringer. I tried to file an insurance claim, but they wanted all of the items so they could determine how much THEY though the items were worth. I was told that I wouldn’t get the items back either.
How can they tell me how much my dead Grandfather’s items are worth?
The Post Office is useless and should just be put out of business.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#20re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 1:14pm
"The employees at my local PO are the laziest, and most rude employees I've ever met."
Do we have the same post office or is that NYC in general?
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#21re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 1:23pm
I'm in LA.
I have a PO Box down the street because the boxes in my building are REALLY old and small.
The guy who delivers the mail here tells me that the PO where I have my box is the one employees go to to die.
They are all just waiting for thier pension.
Hell, it's not even open on Saturdays!
#22re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 2:23pm
and my postman is great, have had no problems with him. The main post office is another matter....the attitude those people have is amazing, like they are little Gods.
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#23re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 3:12pm
where did you find Judy Garland stamps??
So much for mailing all my fanmail tomorrow....****!
AudreyTwoTwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/06
#24re: Stamps are now 41 Cents!!
Posted: 5/13/07 at 4:14pm
Now we gotta restock on those stupid 2 cent stamps. They aren't even attractive!
I work at a hallmark, and this should be more fun for us: the song cards already cost 5 dollars, and now they have to have even more postage then they already did. Wonderful.
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