Since I went to so much trouble to get them, I might as well show you the beautiful stamps I endured so much to purchase on Thursday.
Sorry, the overhead fluorescents in my lair cast a shadow from my phone. There 12 stamps on the front, and 8 on the back. I think my favorite is the red barn. BOTH of them. And the snowy path between the snowy trees. As you can see, there are 10 different scenes, then they repeat. It cost $11 for the book of 20 stamps.
These will go on Genius's letters. The bills get the flags. Which cost the same.
These are beautiful and I also love the red barns. When Australia releases sheets of pictured stamps all the pictures are the same. I prefer your mixed selection. I haven't bought regular stamps for a while so maybe we do it different now. I buy the concession stamps for pensioners which are always the same and always not pretty. They come in "books" of five and we are limited to eight "books" per year. If we need more than 40 stamps we have to buy regular priced ones which are more than $1 each!
ReplyDeleteRiver,
ReplyDeleteForty stamps a year! That's outrageous! I can't believe there's a limit on your discount. No wonder you pay your bills online.
These current stamps are 55 cents each. They're called "Forever Stamps." I could buy a truckload of them (yes, more than 40 stamps), and even if rates go up in the future, my mail would still go through on these stamps.
The cardinal and the bluejay (bluejay, right?) are quite beautiful images as well.
ReplyDeleteIf YOU designed a sheet of stamps, what would be depicted on them?
Sioux,
ReplyDeleteI would have to put some brightly-colored scratcher tickets on my book of stamps! Maybe half scratchers, and half slot machine games! I might singlehandedly cause the 1-800-BETSOFF line to burn up from former gamblers I cause to relapse.
Postage is going up, but still remains a relatively cheap way to communicate. Letter writing has become almost obsolete. I prefer to think of handwritten letters as a lost art. My grandson was 8 when we moved her and I would write letters to him about once a month. Just newsy letters about how our day was and anything unusual that happened like the time Grampa caught and held a hummingbird to set him free from being caught between two screen doors in the shed. He loved my letters so much that one day when he was supposed to be cleaning his room, my daughter found him sitting in his closet with the light on, re-reading all my letters to him. She told me she couldn't very well scold him when he looked up at her and said, "Gramma writes the best letters."
ReplyDeleteKathy,
ReplyDeleteI send a letter to Genius every week. He SAYS he reads them. Once he sent me a text with a quote, saying, "This is the funniest thing you've ever written!" I think it was about Farmer H and our evening time devoted to: "This is the time of day when we discuss the most recent thing you've done wrong."