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Today’s Postage Rate Increase

Cidu Bill on May 12th 2008

…or as most of you are probably thinking right now, “today’s what???”

I can’t remember — and I’m old enough to recall the 4-cent stamp replacing the 3-cent stamp — an increase in the first-class mail rate receiving this little publicity. Could it be that first-class mail is simply irrelevant now?

(When my son went off to college last September, I offered to buy him a bunch of envelopes and stamps. He said “That’ll be helpful if I ever want to contact somebody really, really slowly”)

Still, I foresee credit card companies reaping huge late fees, as people’s payments get returned to them for insufficient postage and have to be re-mailed.

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