the smedley log - suburban scrawl

Stamps to spare

I’ve got stamps. And not the forever kind.

I started the week with 17 of them, and I still have about a dozen to spare. They’re the last of my 39 cent collection, and since I hate using supplemental postage stamps (especially of the one or two cent variety), I feel the strong need to get rid of these remaining 12 by next Saturday. The first five were utilized in the impromptu resurrection of my long dormant letter-writing habit.

But now I’m starting to run out of people I can target with substantive letters, and I don’t use the postal service for most of my bills these days either. Come to think of it, there isn’t much of anything for which I use postage anymore.

This letter-writing void in my life recently spurred a conversation in which Marisa mentioned the Modern Letter Project, which I vaguely recall forgetting about a few months back. I had meant to sign up because the idea sounded unflinchingly cool (and because I used to write letters incessantly). This morning I dashed off an email begging for inclusion. We’ll see how that goes.

i’m so over the post office raising the price of stamps. i guess i’ve gone to the dark side and started paying bills online.

I, too, pay most of my bills in the virtual world (though, unfortunately, they still seem to take real money from my bank account). But I still (very) occasionally like to send cards and letters.

Incidentally, the MLP folks have accepted me for the next round of actual letter-writing (in June).