Comments on: Going Postal http://gedblog.com/2008/05/11/going-postal/ A day in the life of me. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:46:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Leslie Michel (aka "torchstar") http://gedblog.com/2008/05/11/going-postal/comment-page-1/#comment-2582 Leslie Michel (aka "torchstar") Mon, 12 May 2008 10:44:52 +0000 http://gedblog.com/?p=917#comment-2582 The hubby bought some of those "special" stamps last week- I can't believe the cost of a stamp went up again already! As THE bean counter (network admin & recording engineer, among other things ♨) in our marriage, I have been paying ALL of our bills (except the ones where I can walk to the office and hand them cash) online for a couple years. Here in Marin County, CA the price of gas has been $4 for weeks. I am just so grateful that my YEARS doing mail art for my mailing list of 400+ people in the 80's gave way to being art web mistress code queen guru supreme in the new millennium. Server space costs less per year than US Postage! Plus people whose addresses don't exist on a 4x6 index card in my mailing list's boxes get see my art. Surfing in from someplace exotic out of the blue- not because they know me, or someone I know, or have seen a book my work is in. Pure Magic! On the flip side though, I wonder when the time will come when they'll ask me for my ID-because I'm paying a bill or groceries with CASH... That thought was in my mind when I made a set of groovy Gold Ingot icons last year. Gold is always worth something, everywhere. Ha! HA~ The hubby bought some of those “special” stamps last week- I can’t believe the cost of a stamp went up again already! As THE bean counter (network admin & recording engineer, among other things ♨) in our marriage, I have been paying ALL of our bills (except the ones where I can walk to the office and hand them cash) online for a couple years. Here in Marin County, CA the price of gas has been $4 for weeks.

I am just so grateful that my YEARS doing mail art for my mailing list of 400+ people in the 80’s gave way to being art web mistress code queen guru supreme in the new millennium.

Server space costs less per year than US Postage! Plus people whose addresses don’t exist on a 4×6 index card in my mailing list’s boxes get see my art. Surfing in from someplace exotic out of the blue- not because they know me, or someone I know, or have seen a book my work is in. Pure Magic!
On the flip side though, I wonder when the time will come when they’ll ask me for my ID-because I’m paying a bill or groceries with CASH…

That thought was in my mind when I made a set of groovy Gold Ingot icons last year. Gold is always worth something, everywhere. Ha! HA~

]]> By: smykes http://gedblog.com/2008/05/11/going-postal/comment-page-1/#comment-2579 smykes Mon, 12 May 2008 02:25:13 +0000 http://gedblog.com/?p=917#comment-2579 while I think the gas argument is a valid one I would be interested to know how Manu out there have actually seen their works gas reimbustment go up. Also I would think that the united states postal service would be an ideal case study for alternative methods of transportation making the gas argument all but moot. I know that in New Hampshire some mail careers have been using segways instead of/in combination with their trucks. If this were to be wide spread and the post office chose to invest in smart cars etc. We wouldn't be talking about this right now. Or would we? This rambling train of thought was brought to you by the iPod touch. while I think the gas argument is a valid one I would be interested to know how Manu out there have actually seen their works gas reimbustment go up. Also I would think that the united states postal service would be an ideal case study for alternative methods of transportation making the gas argument all but moot. I know that in New Hampshire some mail careers have been using segways instead of/in combination with their trucks. If this were to be wide spread and the post office chose to invest in smart cars etc. We wouldn’t be talking about this right now. Or would we? This rambling train of thought was brought to you by the iPod touch.

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