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To: pineybill
Did you see the price of a stamp?
6 posted on 09/18/2014 10:11:39 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Chgogal

That was an Air Mail stamp! Regular mail was I think about 2 or 3 cents.


14 posted on 09/18/2014 10:19:59 AM PDT by mc5cents ("Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Chgogal
Did you see the price of a stamp?

According to an inflation calculator online, 6 cents in 1950 was the equivalent of 59 cents in 2014. If this is accurate, then relative to other things we buy, stamps are actually cheaper now.

26 posted on 09/18/2014 10:32:47 AM PDT by wideminded
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