Another stupidity from USPS???

"Ralphael1"
Thank you Jerry. It is encouraging that someone else agrees with the
OLD one.

I am finding that with food as I get older,
nothing agrees.
My great love was a cold day at the footy, munching on a hot meat pie.
Now I have to be a real wuss
and unwrap a salad sandwich on brown bread. (sigh)

Hi Rodeny,

What is a 'footy'?

Fortunately I am still able to eat anything. But, take away chocolate
and I would starve.

A true but funny story. I use to live in an Italian neighborhood in
New York that was primarily Scicilian. I was getting a rash and the
dermatologist told me I was alergic to tomatoes and stay away from
them. I would have starved to death if had listened, tomatoes were
the neighborhood's main food group.

Jerry B

Ralphael1 wrote:
I just got around to the latest stamp catalog from the Cave.
Flags of Our Nation Set 1
Stars and Stripes, AL, AK, American Samoa, AZ, AR, CO, CT and DE.
Full coil of 50
Flags of Our Nation Set 2
DC, FL, GA. Guam, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS. Full coil of 50
OK, ten different stamps in a coil of 50. Doesn't make sense to me
other than to force collectors to buy more stamps.
I did not realize these were "of Our Nation", I was thinking State
flags.
Twenty-one US dollars per coil for 10 different stamps. Six different
coils ( I think ) ,$126.00USD for the set? Not for this OLD boy.
Does this make sense to anyone??
BTW, the Cave had a typo in the names of set 2; Hawaii'i.

Ralphael, the OLD one

I keep two strips of ten and use the other 30 stamps for postage. A
letter going to Connecticut, for example, will get that stamp on it.
I'll probably never use the extra North Dakota stamps!

Also, the cost will be spread out over a couple of years.

Bill

On Sep 19, 11:55*am, "rodney" wrote:
"Ralphael1"
Thank you Jerry. It is encouraging that someone else agrees with the
OLD one.

I am finding that with food as I get older,
nothing agrees.
My great love was a cold day at the footy, munching on a hot meat pie.
Now I have to be a real wuss
and unwrap a salad sandwich on brown bread. *(sigh)

ugh, double ugh. I couldn't live without the kick of a Mickey D. with
fries. G!

RtOo

On Sep 19, 2:26*pm, Bill Sharpe wrote:
Ralphael1 wrote:
I just got around to the latest stamp catalog from the Cave.
Flags of Our Nation Set 1
Stars and Stripes, AL, AK, American Samoa, AZ, AR, CO, CT and DE.
Full coil of 50
Flags of Our Nation Set 2
DC, FL, GA. Guam, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS. Full coil of 50
OK, ten different stamps in a coil of 50. Doesn't make sense to me
other than to force collectors to buy more stamps.
I did not realize these were "of Our Nation", I was thinking State
flags.
Twenty-one US dollars per coil for 10 different stamps. Six different
coils ( I think ) ,$126.00USD for the set? Not for this OLD boy.
Does this make sense to anyone??
BTW, the Cave had a typo in the names of set 2; Hawaii'i.

Ralphael, the OLD one

I keep two strips of ten and use the other 30 stamps for postage. A
letter going to Connecticut, for example, will get that stamp on it.
I'll probably never use the extra North Dakota stamps!

Also, the cost will be spread out over a couple of years.

Bill- Hide quoted text -

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I still have many 1¢, 2¢, 3¢, 4¢ etc to use. When mailing the few
letters I send out I stick on extra stamps just to get rid of them.

RtOo

Hi Rodeny,
What is a 'footy'?

Hi Jerry,
"footy" refers to an odd egg shaped leather ball,
that Australians kick around a huge oval shaped playing field.
The ball is "the footy", and the game is "footy", one of the
most spectacular sights is when, on rare occaisions,
a player will launch himself on the shoulders of other players,
high in the air to snatch the ball in flight, this is called a "mark".

This image is of one such player, the other, boys eating pies at the footy
(with the obligatory splodge of tomato sauce, if you don't get tomato sauce
stains
down the front of your shirt, well then you havn't enjoyed your pie)
http://cjoint.com/data/jubmqJHw4u.htm

We are currently celebrating our 150 year of "Aussie Rules" football,
The Grand Final will be played soon, by the two best teams at the Melbourne
Cricket Ground in front of perhaps 85,000 people.


Words from the Australia Post "footy" stamp pack.......

Emigrants to the colony of Victoria brought with them a variety of
approaches
to playing football from their schools and towns in England, Ireland and
Scotland.
Thus Australian football had its evolutionary beginnings in the 1850s, in
scratch
matches (games without standard rules) played in Melbourne parks on
holidays on an ad-hoc basis.
By 1858 some of these games were advertised or recorded in local newspapers
or diaries, so we know, for instance, that on 5 June 1858 Melbourne Grammar
School won a game of football against St Kilda Grammar, on 31 July a scratch
match between young men was arranged by the local publican Jerry Bryant near
the
Melbourne Cricket Ground, and the boys from Melbourne Grammar played against
a group of men from St Kilda. In August and September the well known
three-game
match between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar was played, as were at
least five other scratch matches that we know of. Probably there were
others.
All these games represent a confluence of community and school approaches
to playing football that fed into the origins of the Australian game.

(and to one off-list member here, who follows St Kilda... "Go the Saints"

I guess you shouldn't believe everything you read. I've already had a
few from packages at work and have had no trouble soaking them gum-
free with plain water. I was pleased thet they did soak so easily.
Don't know others experiences, but I'd say they have water sloulable
gum. Although many of the new issues can't be soaked in just water to
remove them from their paper.

YMMV
-==-floW


On Sep 18, 5:33*pm, wrote:

*The biggest complaint is the self stick
stamps that do not soak because of no water soluble layer, *The format
of stamps and limited availability is another big complaint. *

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:19:57 -0700 (PDT), Ralphael1
wrote:

On Sep 19, 3:39*am, "Victor Manta" wrote:
"rodney" wrote in message

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"Ralphael1"
OK, ten different stamps in a coil of 50. Doesn't make sense to me
other than to force collectors to buy more stamps.

With great respect Ralph,
No one is "forcing" anyone to purchase.
That is the choice (and perhaps folly) of the "completionist"

Your ideal of expected behaviour of USPS will never match
their ideal of the profit and loss account.

Nice said, with the supplementary remark that through their buying behavior
the stamp collectors can somehow influence the PO stamps issuing policy.

Please notice that I haven't implied that the collectors can work out this
policy because there are also other factors involved, especially for the
stately owned postal services. Such services have to meet often
contradictory demands of their owners (which is the whole population, in its
full diversity).

--
Victor Manta

Regarding the coil stamps: USPS issues stamps in coils of 50, 100,
3,000, 5,000 and 10,000The Cave will sell a strip of stamps, 25 in the
case of low face value, from the 3000 and 5000 coils but not of the 50
and 100.
I do not live near a Philatelic Centers and do not know if they will
break coils of 50 and 100. They will sell you one stamp from the 3000,
5,000 or 10,000 coil if you so desire, and they do not charge for
postage to mail the stamps you order as the Cave does.
My point is this, Sell me a part of any coil so I do not have all that
excess postage.

Although it doesn't make "Ralph sense", it surely makes sense to me -
and not to be a pain either. If they sold from the smaller rolls, it
may be tougher to dump them later on. You could always drop a good
amount of stamps from a 3,000 roll, but drop 30 from a 50 and have the
next person want 25.

Yes, it may be picking nits, but aren't the smaller rolls for people
who use them for their purpose? The large rolls are industrial
strength puppies for non-profits. :^)

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:44:36 -0700 (PDT), Ralphael1
wrote:

On Sep 19, 10:36*am, Sir F. A. Rien wrote:
Ralphael1 found these unused words:

BTW, the Cave had a typo in the names of set 2; Hawaii'i.

Arthur, arthur !
Godfrey! Daniels, what's next with those folks?

What, no groetjes? for shame.

BTW, just what is the correct pronounciation for that?
Visitors from Germany say something that sounds like chewss.

You have the wrong person, Ralph! There's Rein and Rien!

One sounds like rain (rine?) and the other chien! oops...

Ralphael1 wrote:

I still have many 1¢, 2¢, 3¢, 4¢ etc to use. When mailing the few
letters I send out I stick on extra stamps just to get rid of them.


I'm now sending out 37-cent plus 5-cent stamps. I'll get to the 39 + 3
before the rate goes up again. grin

Bill