Are we that thick?
The postage stamp dates from 1840 and admittedly the idea of yearly postage rate increases are something a bit more recent. But why did it take nearly 150 years to give rise to the prepaid stamp for a letter?
Even Canada Post and the USPS had prepaid envelopes for their courier services. Give them $10, and you get a prepaid envelope to stuff and pop in a mailbox any time you wish.
Maybe the post office took great glee in watching us poor suckers buy a big sheets of 1c stamps every year and then gum up our tongues attaching often more than one of them to an envelope.
I think they also took great pride in making the price of mailing an envelope the most obscure hard to find piece of information on their web-sites.
Alas, no more! — You can buy them online in Canada or the US.
All hail the prepaid stamp.
– The Travelling Trini
