Thankful for stamps. The introduction of e-bill payment released my postage stamps from burdensome duties and freed them for a much more meaningful purpose. I love to stick those suckers on letters, notes, and cards. Especially this time of year. ♥♥
C’mon, friends, go retro – practice your penmanship, slap a stamp on it and touch someone in the traditional way.
What are you thankful for today?
“Consider the postage stamp, its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”
– J. Billings.
“The postage stamp is a flimsy thing
No thicker than a beetle’s wing
And yet it will roam the world for you
Exactly where you tell it to.”
-EV Lucas
“In this country, two things stand first in rank: your flag and your mail. You all know what honor you pay to your flag, but you should know, also, that your mail, — just that ordinary postal card—is also important. But a postal card, or any form of mail, is not important, in that way, until you drop it through a slot in this building, and with a stamp on it, or into a mail box outdoors. Up to that instant it is but a common card, which anybody can pick up and carry off without committing a criminal act. But as soon as it is in back of this partition, or in a mail box, a magical transformation occurs; and anybody who now should willfully purloin it, or obstruct its trip in any way, will find prison doors awaiting him. What a frail thing ordinary mail is! A baby could rip it apart, but no adult is so foolish as to do it. That small stamp which you stick on it, is, you might say, a postal official, going right along with it, having it always in his sight.”
-E.V. Wright.