Went to get some stamps at our local supermarket. I said, "can I get a book of stamps?" The cashier with a set of eyes like a dead fish said "I don't understand." I said, "postal stamps?". He had to go get a manager.
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Stamps! How anachronistic! Imagine sitting down and actually penning a letter. That's way too personal for most of the younger folk unless... They had a mother who taught them well. 
Funnily enough, I bought a stamp at the Post Office today. I was sending a cheque to settle a credit card account. I wrote out the cheque using a Parker 65 fountain pen in black ink.
Not entirely sure that anyone under 40 would understand.
Not entirely sure that anyone under 40 would understand.
Funny... but why buy postage stamps at a supermarket? Go to the post office.
Convenience, I'd presume. One stop, groceries and a book of stamps, one stop. I do it all the time.
You might hear me cuss the dad blasted gubbermint for many things, but never, ever the United States Postal Service.
I’m actually from Bug Tussle, whose postal address was Hamlet until the Hamlet post office closed and was merged into Humansville —
And when I was a kid we all had to memorize our new ZIP code
65674
It was a fight, a long twilight struggle against evil, to gain Rural Free Delivery.
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Until the late 19th century, residents of rural areas had to travel to a designated distant post office to pick up their mail or to pay for delivery by a private carrier. Fayette County in east-central Indiana claims to be the birthplace of Rural Free Delivery. Milton Trusler, a leading farmer in the county, began advocating the idea in 1880; as the president of the Indiana Grange, he spoke to farmers statewide frequently over the following 16 years.[6] Postmaster General John Wanamaker, owner of a major department store, was ardently in favor of Rural Free Delivery (RFD), with many thousands of Americans living in rural communities who wanted to send and receive retail orders inexpensively. Support for the introduction of a nationwide rural mail delivery service came from The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, the nation's oldest agricultural organization.[7]
However, the adoption of a nationwide RFD system had many opponents. Most important were the four rich, powerful express companies that monopolized the delivery of valuable or time-sensitive packages. Wayne Fuller concludes that they "arrogantly served the public, rendered only mediocre service, [and] made inordinate profits." They were unregulated and confused customers with myriad rates; in rural areas they dropped off packages at the train depot.[8] Furthermore many politically connected town merchants worried that the service would reduce farmers' weekly visits to town to obtain supplies, or that Sears, Roebuck and Company with its catalogs would undermine their local business. The opponents mounted a fierce opposition to the use of parcel post, delaying full implementation. However Sears and the other mail-order houses realized that parcel post would be to their advantage and joined the farmers in a coalition that finally overcame the local merchants and express companies.[9] Indeed, Sears sales tripled in the first five years after parcel post started in 1913.[10]
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If you have Rural Free Delivery you can put money in your letter box and the postman will either stamp your letters or he’ll leave you stamps.
Sing one, ET!
Every generation finds it in vogue to bash the next. As an example: how many of you guys know how to navigate with a sextant, even if you're sailors or outdoorsmen? There are past generations that would have looked witheringly at you for this lack of knowledge; hell, I know how to do it and I'm younger than many of you. Does that mean you're useless idiots?
Or... Could it be that all humans are products of their time in their society, and typically aren't familiar with items or systems they simply haven't yet encountered? Not that many people are purchasing postage stamps at a supermarket these days, and the kid was probably kind of new. A better question than asking why he didn't know how to sell you stamps might be, why would this surprise you?
Or... Could it be that all humans are products of their time in their society, and typically aren't familiar with items or systems they simply haven't yet encountered? Not that many people are purchasing postage stamps at a supermarket these days, and the kid was probably kind of new. A better question than asking why he didn't know how to sell you stamps might be, why would this surprise you?
Or father! I have my kids write thank you letters and they love it. Well mainly they love fighting over licking the stamps.Stamps! How anachronistic! Imagine sitting down and actually penning a letter. That's way too personal for most of the younger folk unless... They had a mother who taught them well.
Without a doubt.
Which makes you wonder what today's 20-somethings who have virtual jobs, get meals delivered to their porch, tell the Uber driver where to take them (or, increasingly, the car itself), spend hours a day playing computer games, "date" online, shop online, and whose college degree is transexual dance therapy interpretation studies, will be doing in twenty years, doesn't it?
My mom was a legendary letter sender.
I still get letters and cards from my dad. Sometimes he includes an old picture of me when I was young.
He lives 15 minutes away and I see him 3+ times a week.
Here is one from about 1981 or so. I was doing the "swurvy curve" down a hill on my bike. I wiped off half my face and broke my thumb.
This is a picture of the picture he sent in the mail. Absolute goofball!
I still get letters and cards from my dad. Sometimes he includes an old picture of me when I was young.
He lives 15 minutes away and I see him 3+ times a week.
Here is one from about 1981 or so. I was doing the "swurvy curve" down a hill on my bike. I wiped off half my face and broke my thumb.
This is a picture of the picture he sent in the mail. Absolute goofball!
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The owners of Johnson’s Telemetry became wealthy and invested several million dollars in Bug Tussle.
Their product was a hand held sonar disc that tracking collars on dogs would activate. Fifty years when coon hides were $50 (many times more than today) they sold this’d Missouri made electronic tracking systems as fast as they could make them.
Today they are an importer and reseller.
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There’s a brand new cell phone tower in Bug Tussle.
It makes the tracking collars work a lot better, you know?
Closer than the post office. Less waiting on line. People are friendlier.
No. I don't know how to use sextant. But do read topo map, use compass and read stars. I was surprised because the door clearly said they sell stamps. Might be a failure on the management's part. Or he didn't pay attention. But still funny.
You forget the study of pregnancy in trans boys.
Because Humansville had a post office with a 65674 zip code I had the privilege of attending a public school where every single student (that was able) read on a 12th grade level by the time we entered seventh grade. Most of us read on a college level by then.
This allowed Miss Charlotte, our seventh grade teacher, to teach us about what then was termed hermaphroditism , now termed intersex.
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Hermaphroditism refers to the condition where an organism possesses both male and female reproductive organs. This can involve the simultaneous presence of both functional reproductive systems (simultaneous hermaphroditism) or the development and function of each system at different life stages (sequential hermaphroditism). In humans, the term "hermaphrodite" is considered outdated and stigmatizing, and the preferred term is "intersex".
True hermaphroditism: an analytic review with a report of 3 new cases - PubMed
Three new cases of true hermaphroditism are described: a 14-year-old patient with a testis on one side and an ovotestis on the other side and a 11-year-old patient as well as a 6-year-old patient both with an ovary on the one side and an ovotestis on the other side. Twenty-four cases, which were...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Every member of the Board of Education was a practicing, devout, observant Christian married to a beautiful college graduate who demanded their children be educated so they could move to a better zip code.
There were two intersex people in our Humansville Christian Church I served communion to three times a week.
If study of that condition allows such people to live better lives, and gain acceptance, then it’s another good example of how the world keeps on progressing up from our caves.
Without a zip code, try getting a job or a degree or a bank account or anything where you are more than a day laborer in the fields of those who have zip codes.
You can’t shop online, without a zip code.
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But they don’t know what postage stamps are.
Would have been funny if cashier would have said they were on isle 12
I would do the same, but that'd just get my popcorn soggy. We've all got a front row seat to the most entertaining freak show I can only refer to as The Boring Twenties.
