HOW MANY STAMPS?

      MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2024

           HOW MANY STAMPS?

           

   Seems there's been a lot of controversy

lately about the operations of the U.S.

Postal service! Complaints that mail is

taking too long to go through. The rates

have certainly gone up! I'm old enough to

remember the two penny post card. These days

out stamps don't even carry their monetary

denomination because it changes so often!

Still some hold that the post office has

always been the most cost effective way\

to send mail. That was certainly the case

on this date in 1914. That's the day 4-year-

old Charlotte May Pierstorff was mailed

73 miles from her parents to her grandparents!

Seems if you were under the 50 pound weight

limit that was the cheapest way to travel!

Wonder how many stamps the kid needed?

We get other people's mail from time to time

and I was beginning to get worried somebody

else's kid would show up at our mailbox! 

Seems I have nothing to worry about. The

Postmaster changed the rules not long after

Charlotte got shipped and kids can no longer

be mailed! Hope your "regular mail" is coming 

through OK and that all your NEWS is good!