Postage Increase | TheaterFire

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Glittering_Tea5502@reddit

I can’t keep track of the price anymore. I still use checks and I still mail cards on occasion.

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AmandaMarsh@reddit

This was probably the first one most of us remembered. 1988.

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Confident-Cellist-25@reddit

I remember my mom being pissed when it went up to 29¢

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SeasonPositive6771@reddit

I remember what big news it was when it went up to 29 cents. You would have thought the economic stability of the universe was crashing.

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gardeniaphoto4@reddit

I definitely remember this stamp. Used by my parents to send grown-up things like bill payments.

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gitismatt@reddit

jseus fuck. I remember when they went from $0.22 to E and the PEARL CLUTCHING

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Lucky_Louch@reddit

Bought a stack recently. I still write checks every month for rent and a few utilities.

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dragonbornsqrl@reddit

Canada post has a yearly release of First Nations, Inuit and Metis stamps that got me into collecting

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mikeisboris@reddit

I've started mailing checks for some bills too. Since I work from home its a good way to walk the half mile each way to the nearest blue mailbox.

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I do this too! Though only for bills that I can't pay online (like the mortgage) or places that charge me more to do epay (78 cents is still cheaper than the $5 fee on my water bill or the extra charge from DMV to renew our cars).

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rjcpl@reddit

Using your bank’s bill pay feature is the way to go. No processing fees and they cover the postage if there’s no electronic method. Plus generally better to be pushing money from your account in your control rather than give a company your bank or credit card info to pull from.

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jerseysbestdancers@reddit

I'll see if I can with my mortgage. I can't pay do electronic bills on their end because I don't have a checking account with them. Fingers crossed that I can do it through the bank where my checking account actually is, but I would bet the 1950s bank my mortgage is through won't allow it lmao

Also, if you pay your water bill like this, it doesn't matter that they don't have the slip that comes with it? Same with your drivers license?

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rjcpl@reddit

Yeah the water bill is the only bill I have that pretty much only takes a check as payment and my bank’s bill pay just sends them a check for me. Don’t need the return slip.

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

The only thing I mail these days is the quarterly HOA payment, because they charge $12 to pay it online and that makes me feel like being a PITA about it.

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sundayfunday78@reddit

It’s $1.23 CDN, with a meter. Or $1.44 regular. I remember when ours was $.78 sigh

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_hi_plains_drifter_@reddit

I bought the Alex Trebek stamps when they came out.

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MeanAnalyst2569@reddit

I don’t snail mail much but I need some Betty White stamps! I named my car after her

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memyselfandi78@reddit

I still think $0.78 is a pretty good deal considering the logistics of getting an envelope from my house in Oregon All the way across the country and delivered directly into the box of somebody else's house In less than a week.

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eastmemphisguy@reddit

I always thought it was weird that letters that have to be physically carried had one flat rate but long distance phone service cost extra when nobody had to do anything special to make your call to another state go through.

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Putasonder@reddit

Fun to see the variation even within this micro-generation 😀

I just bought two sheets of Betty Whites. But via the app. And had them delivered.

Like you, I’ll use them mostly for birthday, graduation, and thank you cards.

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Winter-Ad2052@reddit

It's been at least 5 years since I used a stamp.

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tultommy@reddit

I think it's been at least 10 for me. I'm honestly confused what people are mailing lol. Junk mail is the only thing delivered to my house and I pay everything online. Are people handwriting letters again just to be retro?

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sarabridge78@reddit

My business(group home for the developmentally disabled) deals with the state a lot, and also just getting paperwork signed and sent back from guardians(we have to send a SASE((lol, remeber those?!?)) to even have a hope of having the paperwork returned.) The state also relies on the good Ole fax machine, heavily, still.

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tultommy@reddit

Yea, I was mostly being facetious because I don't personally use mail for anything, but I do understand valid reasons for needing it lol. I had to deal with the IRS a few years ago and had to find a fax machine lol.

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sarabridge78@reddit

Right, snail mail is one thing, but needing a fax machine, lol.

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twirlerina024@reddit

Mother's Day cards, birthday cards, sympathy cards, sometimes even thank you cards.

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tultommy@reddit

Oh... yea I guess that true. For me when places started charging $7 for a card that is gonna end up in a landfill I just told all my family we don't do cards anymore. Don't get us one and we won't get you one lol. Doesn't mean I don't still call or see them on the day, but no cards for us.

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sarahprib56@reddit

More than 10 for me. My complex doesn't even have outgoing mail. I had to take my ballot to my parents and have my mom mail it, or take it to work. Every bill I have is on auto pay.

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Cancel_Electrical@reddit

I had to send some papers to someone a few weeks ago and only needed a single stamp. Went to the post office with a buck in quarters only to find out that they didn't accept cash. Had to put a $0.73 charge on my card. Weird, because it usually costs the business $0.25 or more for every card run.

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tellerwoes@reddit

So when my grandma died about 10 years ago, we found a shoebox absolutely stuffed with books of forever stamps. According to her sister, she bought two thousand, yes THOUSAND books when they first became available

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LaLa_820@reddit

I found a ton of forever stamps after my grandpa passed last year. I can’t bring myself to use them. I used some to send Christmas cards and birthday cards but to certain people and let them know it was from grandpa. I can probably use his stamps for the next ten years.

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PlasticVantastic@reddit

This is so sweet ❤️

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CompletelyBedWasted@reddit

Who tf is still using stamps? Lol

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BoltsGuy02@reddit

They should double or triple it. $9.5 billion deficit in 2024.

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LoveYerBrain2@reddit

The USPS is a service. It is not designed to be a profitable business.

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BoltsGuy02@reddit

No shit it’s a service, I didn’t say it wasn’t. It’s a pretty easy service to see surplus/deficit. When people like the OP choose to use a service with other options subsidizing it is just plain reckless spending. People could be getting healthcare, schooling, medical assistance, better roads, parks etc but no it’s going to people too lazy to send electronic payments that aren’t willing $2 a letter.

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LoveYerBrain2@reddit

The budget reconciliation bill that was just passed is projected to give tax cuts totalling around $117 billion to the richest 1% of Americans in 2026 alone. But, by all means, let's complain about the USPS...

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BoltsGuy02@reddit

Or we complain about all reckless spending (especially ICE budget) instead of picking our favorite wasteful spending.

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MindwellEggleston@reddit

People could be getting healthcare, schooling, medical assistance, better roads, parks etc.

Ah yes, it's that dastardly postal service that's keeping us from realizing these things and not taxing the obscenely rich enough.

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BoltsGuy02@reddit

Are you this stupid all the time or this a today thing?

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AppropriateFan4530@reddit

Looks like people just can’t get with the times. Sounds like my parents

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Potential_Sun6667@reddit

You're a confused person. Postal service is a service not a business.

The faster you learn that the less you'll vote republican.

I mean stay off fox news bro.

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BoltsGuy02@reddit

No shit Sherlock, services also run surpluses and deficits. I know economics was 20+ years ago for you but damn was that a stupid reply. I don’t vote republican nor watch any cable news. You failed real hard.

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MindwellEggleston@reddit

I don’t vote republican nor watch any cable news. You failed real hard.

Right, I doubt you're an American at all. Probably just in this relatively apolitical subreddit to stir up discontent.

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Weak_Radish966@reddit

Old man rant, you could use a ten cent stamp to mail a letter when I was a youngin!

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ListeningForAnswers@reddit

You’re a little older than most of us Xennials if it was 10 cents to mail a letter when you were young. It cost 10 cents in 1974/1975 and most of us weren’t born yet.

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snot_cat@reddit

Post card stamps were one thin dime but 29 cents is the cheapest I remember buying stamps for my mailing pleasure.

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Cloud_Disconnected@reddit

Born in 78, 22¢ is the cheapest I remember.

That's right, I used the ¢ symbol. Proof that I am a dinosaur.

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twirlerina024@reddit

I also remember $0.20 stamps. My first grade teacher made us write a lot of letters (to our parents, to ourselves, to make a complaint or suggestion to a business, thank you notes after a field trip, and we had penpals too).

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NickelCitySaint@reddit

The Elvis 29¢ stamps.. I remember it like it was yesterday

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theleaphomme@reddit

25 cents here

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Frequent_Alfalfa_347@reddit

Yep. Our rural mail woman would take my letters with a quarter taped to them. I likely did this less than half a dozen times (when i started writing letters to camp friends when i was 8)but she took them!

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Weak_Radish966@reddit

I must have only mailed postcards, because I remember those being a dime in the 90s.

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Walksuphills@reddit

There's an $0.18 stamp on my birth certificate envelope, so I guess that's as cheap as my lifetime goes.

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ReverendHambone@reddit

I remember 14 cents

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pogulup@reddit

I still write checks too (just did this week for a garage door repair). But if you are one of those people who hold up grocery store lines writing a check, a pox on your house.

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melllow-yelllow@reddit (OP)

🤣 I do not use checks out in the world, no. Just to pay bills.

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dopescopemusic@reddit

Fuck checks.

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rearwindowpup@reddit

Forever stamps continue to be a fairly solid investment

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melllow-yelllow@reddit (OP)

I bought $155 worth. 💸

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DollaStoreKardashian@reddit

I just bought a bunch of Betty White, John Lewis, and RBG memorial stamps. Thanks for the reminder, OP!

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seffend@reddit

And you just reminded me that I want to stock up on Betty White!

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Walksuphills@reddit

I still have a few that I think were $0.62

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

That’s crazy. Combined with a 7 dollar hallmark card.

Sorry family your birthday cards might be ending.

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melllow-yelllow@reddit (OP)

Dollar Tree - they sell Hallmark cards for $1.25!

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_shaftpunk@reddit

The only reason I ever buy stamps is for work. My company stills mails out checks so I have to buy coils of stamps. Otherwise I’d probably never step foot in the post office.

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TheJokersWild53@reddit

I remember being a kid and having my grandmother lose it when the price went from 20¢ to 22¢.

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gardeniaphoto4@reddit

Just like many of us still think 1990 was 10/15 years ago, I still think stamps cost 25/29 cents each. But then I'm brought back to the present whenever it comes time to pay for a book of stamps...

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GhostOfMrBojangles@reddit

Funny thing is....

You can buy forever stamps online for less $, and yes they absolutely do work. I still use a couple of stamps per month.

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FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

29 cent gang here

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sunnyd311@reddit

I quit sending Christmas cards because it cost just as much to mail them as it was to have them made!

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melllow-yelllow@reddit (OP)

I finally gave up sending them to extended family and acquaintances two years ago. Now I only send them to my mom, grandparents, sister, best friend, and mother in law.

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OreoSoupIsBest@reddit

I didn't even know anyone still mails things. I don't even check my mail unless I am expecting something.

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Confident-Cellist-25@reddit

I check the mail once or twice a week just so the mail lady doesn’t think I’ve died

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Maleficent_Gas5417@reddit

I remember leaving my Columbia house mailer in the mailbox with 29 cents and the mail person would stamp it for me. What a time to be alive

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BillyQuantrill@reddit

I was so anal about stamps before the forever stamp was released. I still have an envelope with a bunch of 1 cent stamps bc they jacked up the price when I was in college.

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Chemical-Cream1291@reddit

I use the USPS everyday. I just bought stamps today. Thanks for the reminder to get more before they go up again

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Slim_Margins1999@reddit

I mail 5-10 checks a week for the construction company I work at. It’s a bit crazy how much stamps have become. Guess I’m going to stock up on a couple rolls at lunch time today.

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IslandJack76@reddit

We have several sheets, but I can’t remember the last time I used stamps

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sardonicmarvel@reddit

I think it’s been 15 years since I’ve used or bought a stamp for anything. I still figured stamps were like 40-some cents lol Oops!

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ListeningForAnswers@reddit

I remember stamps being anywhere from 20 cents to 25 cents at some point in the mid-1980s. I used to mail letters to family members when I was a kid.

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gorilla-ointment@reddit

I might still use a stamp or two each year, but I haven’t written a check in more than ten years.

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SpaceLemur34@reddit

I've never run out of stamps.

I only ever buy new ones when I lose the old ones. Of course I haven't used a stamp in like 3 years.

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geneb0323@reddit

Didn't even realize the price was going up... My current roll is still about half full and I don't know that I care enough about a $5 increase in the cost of a roll to stock up right now. Good to know about the price increase, though. Feels like just yesterday that it was half of that price.

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Siphoneder@reddit

I need to go dig up some of the "collector" stamps I got when I was a kid and just use several of those since they literally lost most of their value over 30 years and continue to do so.

Also, a somewhat interesting documentary on stamp collectors is on Amazon Prime.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

I bought two rolls about a week ago. Ahead of the game baby!