My two cents

How can anyone ascertain something is forever? Well the Post Office can. This reminds me of when my parents told me to eat all my carrots or I would forever have bad eye sight. But Mom, can't I just skip them and get glasses when I need em.
If I use less stamps the Post Office will have to handle less mail ensuring they will lose less money hence there should never be a need for me to buy any Forever stamps. Besides if the stamps were truly forever, one should be able to reuse them. Just tell me how to get them back, I enjoy recycling just as much as the next person.
As usual I was caught with a few stamps displaying the old rate and had to buy a few two cent stamps. Even when I get rid of all those I won't buy any Forever stamps. All the Forever stamp does is make me realize the Post Office has more price increases in the future. I don't want to think about these increases until they happen because every time the price of a stamp goes up two cents my blood pressure goes up two points. No price increase no heart attack, sounds good to me.
Maybe it's time I start paying my bills online, that would teach the Post Office a lesson. Stamps have not changed nor has the service. They are not new and improves so how can the Post Office justify a two cent increase. I really think the price should decrease instead of increase but that highly unlikely! To make matters worse, the increases started on a Monday. I guess the Public Relations department of the Post Office forgot that everybody hates Mondays, we're already mad before we lick our first stamp. If I had been the PR man for the Post Office I would have suggested the increase start at 5 PM on a Friday. Almost everybody has happy hour on their mind at that time and with the thought of having to pay $3.50 for a beer, two cents would seem like chump change.