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  • Re: Ghost towns

    From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Wed Nov 11 07:53:38 2020
    Daryl wrote --

    For the true definition of "Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold",
    search for "Glitter Bomb" on YouTube. :P

    I like how people put garbage and stuff in delivery boxes and leave them
    for porch pirates. :)

    ... There are many internet scams; send me $20 to learn how.

    Do you want cash, stamps or money order?
    Joe
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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to JOE MACKEY on Tue Nov 17 19:25:00 2020
    Hello JOE!

    ** On Tuesday 17.11.20 - 06:20, JOE MACKEY wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

    ... I soon found the post office didn't always cancel every
    stamp. These I would tear off and take home. Soak in water a while
    and the stamp would peel off, lay it aside to dry and later with a dab of glue I would reuse it.
    This was when almost all correspondence was snail mail.
    I didn't buy stamps for years. :)

    I did the same thing. I studied the envelope of every letter
    that arrived in the mail. If there was no cancellation, the
    stamp was fair game for reuse.

    Sometimes the cancellation would only catch the smallest part
    of the "frame" of a stamp. No matter. I would just cut off
    that part and reuse. As long as no part of the monetary
    declaration of the stamp was modified/cut, it was good to go.

    That way we had a stash of stamps we could always rely on.

    Nowadays, the envelopes are covered so much with their marking
    inks that even the envelope can be reused if you wanted to.



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    ../|ug

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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Thu Nov 19 07:01:26 2020
    Daryl wrote --

    every 10 Reminder Letters, only 2 come back for renewal. It doesn't seem worth the effort.

    I know what you mean.
    I've been involved with one group or another over the years who sent out
    a lot of stuff and the return rate was low.

    or a nominal fee for the e-Edition (possibly $2 a year,

    I would rather have the e-edition of magazines rather than a hard copy.
    I can get a .pdf of a magazine and have it on my PC, laptop and tablet, stored in the cloud.
    I can also burn a copy to a CD if I so chose, for a permanent copy.
    And they take up a lot less room on a CD rather than in a hard copy pile.

    I soon found the post office didn't always cancel every stamp.

    I've seen that at times as well.

    I gotten some mail where the mailman has used a pen to black out a uncancelled stamp so it couldn't be re-used.

    I had been use a self inking address stamp

    There are apps for your printer that will print out not only addresses
    but postage as well.
    Not sure how that works since I've never had a need to use it.
    I've never been very successful at printing envelopes anyway. I could
    with a dot matrix with labels but not since then.
    Joe

    --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to JOE MACKEY on Thu Nov 19 07:54:00 2020
    Hello JOE!

    ** On Thursday 19.11.20 - 07:01, JOE MACKEY wrote to DARYL STOUT:

    There are apps for your printer that will print out not
    only addresses but postage as well. Not sure how that
    works since I've never had a need to use it.

    The user buys or rents a special printer, and prepays for the
    stamp value. Deposit $100, then get $100's use of any number
    of stamp(ings) you need with variable amounts required.


    I've never been very successful at printing envelopes
    anyway. I could with a dot matrix with labels but not
    since then.

    Anyone who is serious about printing successfuly is using a
    laser model. ;)


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    ../|ug

    --- OpenXP 5.0.47
    * Origin: Nostalgia is like grammar: You find the past perfect & present tense. (2:221/1.58)