And stamps are 76 cents now.
We paid between 2 and 4 cents for a basic first-class stamp all the way from 1870 through the early 1960s. Then the price curve started looking like the frequency of Joe Biden's memory failures.
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And stamps are 76 cents now.
Technology and their price hikes are creating their own issue of lower volume and less revenue from 1st class postage. 20+ years ago, a book of stamps would last 4-6 weeks when all bills were mailed. I bought a sheet of forever stamps 3 years ago and haven't gone through 20 stamps in that time.And stamps are 76 cents now.