Subj : Re: Ghost towns
To   : JOE MACKEY
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Wed Nov 18 2020 12:37:00

Joe,

 JM>    The post office came out with the Forever stamp when postage was
 JM> about 44 cents or something.  I bought a couple of books of them. Still
 JM> have them somewhere in my desk.

  I have several books of these.

 JM>   I do almost all things online now, and seldom use a stamp.

  When I send out the reminder letters for the square dance publication
that I'm the editor for, I have to use an envelope and stamp. Yet, for
every 10 Reminder Letters, only 2 come back for renewal. It doesn't seem
worth the effort.

  The Arkansas State Square Dance Federation (ASSDF) Executive Board
(I'm on it, now being the Editor of "The Modern Square" publication,
for a print and an e-Edition) is looking at possible reduction of ad
rates, or a nominal fee for the e-Edition (possibly $2 a year, which
is less than 20 cents a month)...but would belive folks would rather
get it free??!! They obviously never heard of TANSTAFFL from Robert
Heinlein.

 JM>   There were would be boxes and boxes of documents and among them
 JM> envelopes.  I soon found the post office didn't always cancel every
 JM> stamp.

  I've seen that at times as well.

 JM>    These I would tear off and take home.  Soak in water a while and the
 JM> stamp would peel off, lay it aside to dry and later with a dab of glue
 JM> I would reuse it.

  <voice of Gildersleeve> "Ooooo...aren't we sneaky??!!" <G>

  I had been use a self inking address stamp, but if I didn't press it
down hard enough, part wouldn't print. So, on this ham radio website, I
ordered sheets of them. There is a dachshund inside a hot dog bun (a true
weiner dog, which my late wife got me partial to) on the left, then my
name, ham radio callsign, mailing address, and email address. With the
30 sheets I ordered at 30 per sheet, that's 900 self stick labels, for
only $41. It'll take awhile to go through them.

Daryl

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