Ken Follett wrote:  "Then again, look at the Post Office & their
     aggressive drive to design stamps to sell to collectors... I don't even
     think they care about moving the mail with all these newly minted images."

     While I agree that the people who put out the fancy new stamps may not
     be paying as much attention as they could to getting the mail out,
     except maybe for the millions of advertizing catalogues, I love the
     new stamps.  I figure if I have to pay bills, at least I can pay them
     with something pretty.  Sometimes I wonder what the people and
     organizations I send them to think and whether maybe it cheers them up
     a little.  This is probably silly, since I assume phone bills, etc.,
     are sorted by machines that are unlikely to care.

     Incidentally, it seems to me that my mail is getting to me pretty
     quick recently.

     Marilyn Harper
     National Register of Historic Places
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