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Oops They did it Again
A First Class Stamp will be $0.37 cents soon

When was the last time that you felt good or at least justified for the price increase of goods and/or services? Like never right! Well get a load of this:

The United States Postal Service announced earlier this week that it will raised the price of a single, first class stamp to $0.37 cents. The increase, according the Post Master General, is to offset costs of new machinery now used to sort your mail in a safer manner.

This is yet, another price hike of goods and services attributed to the terrorists attacks of September 11 and the Anthrax scares. Well, thank you Mr. Osama bin Laden and whomever is responsible for all this powdery substances lingering around our post offices.

As if it wasn't enough, all the lay offs and the economy in general been on the toilet, we the people, have to pay more for our goods and services. This is indeed, not the America I dreamed of when I was a youngster.

I feel that we as Americans, need to fight this and all these injustices. Perhaps, the best thing we can do is help the Postal Service in any way we can. We need to get our heads together and think creatively to succeed in our goal to save money. I have a few suggestions to offset this evil price hikes.

A very good idea to deal with the hated junk mail, and have some fun at the same time, is to place a few of those tire and lube ads on the same envelope with your phone bill. Give the electric company a Chinese food restaurant ad along with your check. Let them throw the damn ads away. You will be helping deliver the ads to more people that way!

When you get those pre approved letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and junk like that, most of them come with fancy postage paid return envelopes, right? Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put them in these cool little envelopes. Wouldn't that be grand!!!

Send an ad for your local dry cleaner to American Express. Or a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.

You can send it back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting all their junk back. Let them know what it's like to get junk mail, and best of all they are paying for it, twice!

The truth is that the latest increase has nothing to do with recent terrorists acts or the whole Anthrax thing. Sad as it is, I do believe these hikes, are related more to the fact that Americans are using the Internet to communicate more than ever.

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