It occurs to me that with the rising cost of stamps these days, it almost doesn’t even make sense to buy books of stamps with a set value. You are inevitably going to have to buy a book of one cent stamps to make up the difference of whatever price changes are sent down from on high. It’s kind of like stocks, only it doesn’t go down, just up. So I got to thinking, if I already have to buy a book of one cent stamps, why not forgo the book of high priced stamps and just buy a bunch of books of one cent stamps? I could then just put the right number of stamps on my envelopes for that week.
Of course I would have to use a larger envelope regardless of what I was sending, because I don’t think a standard size envelope would comfortably hold 42 stamps. It will probably only be a year before I have to send everything in manila envelopes.