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From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: re: US SNAIL price increase
Message-ID: <358@abnji.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 09:29:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 25 09:29:53 1985
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>Get more for your money.  Very simple: use penny stamps.  That's
>right you get one hundred stamps for a dollar...... amazing!!
>Simply put 22 of them on an envelope and off you go.  You will
>never get stuck having the wrong denomination stamp again.
>
>And what is more important you will rest assured that the Postal
>Union and those working for the Post Office will be WORKING.  You
>see, they have to cancel each stamp...... or else you or your friends
>may use the stamp a second time.

It will work even better for mail overseas.  42 stamps!  Pity the poor sod
who must cancel all those!  And if it is over 1/2 ounce, 84!!!
-- 
James C Armstrong, Jnr.  { ihnp4 || allegra || mcnc || cbosgb } !abnji!jca

"You said you came from Fulham."
"Griffiths, when I look at you, I wonder why your ancestors bothered to
climb out of the primordial slime."