Subj : Canada Post no longer rai
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Tue Aug 12 2025 07:31:52

RM>> I grew up in a very rural farming area - we didn't farm but we had
  >> a few acres and horses - and the mailbox was a fair ways from the
  >> house and the mailman used to put the flag up if he left you mail
  >> saving you a walk out there for nothing..

MP>That makes sense except when you put something out, and raise the flag, how
  >do you know it is not still up because he's not been yet?

That could be a problem I guess. I suppose we didn't go out to get mail
until quite a while after the mail would have been delivered.

MP>Now it is very rare that there is anything outgoing in the box but, back
  >when I was a kid, it seemed like we had mail going out and coming in almost
  >daily... bills, letters, etc., that were commonplace before the electronic
  >age.

Seriously!...  Even quite a while after I'd moved out to my own place
I was sending out probably 60 letters a year, but when they decided
to double the price on stamps, that dropped to about 15 letters a year
and the next big raise in stamps had me hardly sending out anything.
I buy 10-packs of stamps to save money, and one of those usually lasts
me about 3 years now..  Obviously eMail and paying bills online made
that a lot easier.

Somewhere in there they stopped putting a value on regular stamps.
A first class stamp price was going up so fast there was no point.

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