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Stamps · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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We got a question for our American mama. Dear mama, when was the
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last time you used a stamp? Well, let's ask American mama. Mama,
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mama, and joining us now our American mama, Terry Nettaville. Um
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I, okay, when was the last time I used the stamp? There
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was something I had to mail earlier this year. When was the last time
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you had to use the stamp all the time? Because when I'm I'm in
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the middle of showers and wedding stuff coming out, so we've been spinning,
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so you're doing it all the time. Okay, this shocked me. I'm
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telling you what. It is, going up to sixty six cents for a
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stamp, for a stamp, and it just went up to sixty three sixty
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three last January, right, and now it's going to this Janue earlier this
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year. Yeah, this year, and it's going up begin to sixty six
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right, And I'm thinking, oh my gosh, we're gonna be sending out,
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you know, about five hundred invitations to steals in Tristan's wedding, and
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I cannot believe that that is going to cost a small fortune hundreds of dollars.
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So my husband has this. He is a conspiracy theorist about this.
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He said, they're trying to get us to go digital so they can keep
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up with what we send through our email. Well, he just feels like
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the Big Brothers coming after us, and before long, it's going to be
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a dollar for a stamp. And you know, I don't know if that's
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true, but I do know that I remember when we were little. Yeah,
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well, twenty cents. I remember, fourteen cent stamps. I remember
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nineteen cent stamps. Remember twenty twenty one I remember, yeah, I mean
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back in the day. The other theory, I guess could be that maybe
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the postal system is hurting because now that we can text and now that we
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can email, they're not getting as much money, so they're having to hike
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it up, just like our food and beverage company. That's it. I
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pay all my bills online. That used to be the number one reason I'd
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buy stamps was to sit in the bills, right, But I do that
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all online. I haven't. I haven't had to mail a bill, yeah
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for twenty years. I mean it's been a while. Fifteen Yeah, the
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automatic automatic payment, Yeah, just pay and online all that other stuff.
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So maybe that's it. And I don't you know, if I want to
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write a friend, I've got a friend who lives in Alaska. If I
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want to write her, I sent her a text an email. If it's
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going to be longer, you know, I mean, it's it's really pretty
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simple. But this sixty six Now, my brother had a good point on
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this. He said, privatize it. It's another great point here. We've
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got a government run company. Wow, that is very struggling right now.
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Right. They're struggling with with keeping up and the reason why they've had to
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have a two increases in stamps this spring is because they can't keep up with
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inflation and they can't keep up with the man. And every time they raise
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prices, people like Kevin go, you know what I'm gonna do? Even
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let smiling, Yeah, right, and it becomes a spiral. Yeah.
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But like Amtrak, who's not making money, the post Office has obviously got
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some financial problems and they're struggling. Why is this something that the government's still
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running? That is such a good point. I never thought about that.
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Have you noticed that I've noticed the postal service out on Sundays, So I've
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recently asked about it. Inquired. I said, what, Kevin, why
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are they coming out on Sundays? They don't go to every house? He
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said, I think I heard there was a deal with Amazon that the US
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Postal Service deliver Amazon packages. And as Donald Trump campaigned on talked about in
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twenty sixteen, that was a bad deal for the Postal Service. The Postal
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Service is not making enough money on that deal. They needed to have charged
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Amazon more. But we don't have good people in government who are good at
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negotiating, right, And everybody knows the art of the deal. It's him,
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right, So if he says that's not a good deal, I'm just
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willing to bet that he's right about Yeah, it's a great deal for Amazon,
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not a good deal for the American So do you think that my husband
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has a point that eventually it'll be hiked up so high that all of our
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mail dealings will go through email or texting in a way that is going to
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be I don't know encrypted where people can get a hold of it. And
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see what people can get all of it now, I mean the government wants
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you're in emails, The government will get your emails. That's already happening in
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criminal cases. Across the country. If they want your emails, they'll get
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them. Yeah, So this seems like it's more of a people are not
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using the postal system as they used to, so they got to hike it
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up so they can make money where they're losing it. Yeah. But in
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the postal office, the Postal Services is trying to do the same thing that
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government does in that they raise what they charge you. They don't cut their
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costs. I mean, yes, they've cut some rule deliveries on Saturdays and
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things like that, but for a large part they're having problems, you know,
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figuring out how they could keep their costs under control as their clientele changes.
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Well, that's interesting. I will say this. They have those forever
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stamps. Yep. If you had gotten the if you had gotten let's say,
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five thousand of those forty cent for everything stamps, you could still use
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those forty cents stamps today and it would be as good as a sixty three
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cent stamp today. Well, I got one book of forever stamps many years
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ago. You still have that, and I still have I don't know if
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that's good still. The letter that I mailed out earlier this last year,
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the thing that I mailed out was a Forever stamp that I sent out on
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that. So well, I'm tended to go out and get just a couple
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of roles, you know, two hundreds, just so just so I have
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them, so, you know, because if they're gonna if they're able to
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go from sixty three to sixty cents just in these few short months, Yeah,
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what's it going to be like in a year or two? I feel
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