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San Diego, Ca.

Just wanted to let everyone know that rates are going up after Jan 1. .37 cent stamps will go to .39 and .23 cents stamps will go to .24 cents according to the post office.

If you use one 37 cent and one 23 cent stamp like I do you may want to consider adding a 3 cent stamp to your bubbles to cover the increase.
Alot of bubbles return right around the beginning of the year so make sure you have enough postage to get your seeds to you!

Vince

11/19/2005 12:02:12 PM

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Thanks for that info. I did not know the postage is going up. But why not? The oil companies keep raising prices to where they had a record quarter of $300billion, with a "b" that is in one QUARTER. That is not the middle east I am talking about, I am talking about the US big four. Insurance companies though they paid out more than ever the past 18 months still had the 3rd larget profit gain ever in one year, in their history. So then why not a mere 3 cents for a letter. Sorry if I was venting here, but isn't that enough money for these people and I cannot afford medicine that will stop me from taking seizures. Maybe another craniotomy would help. Just my humble opinion.

11/19/2005 7:00:54 PM

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If you like looking into companies that have crazy profit margins, but claim they have to raise prices to very high levels just to make ends meat, you should checkout the drug companies that are making those drugs you cannot afford.

11/20/2005 7:49:09 PM

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Oops, forgot, two 37 cent stamps should still cover a bubble pack with no problem. If the bubble pack is over weight, they get checked at the post office your mail comes into, not somewhere in between, and rarely will be checked at the PO you send them out from, unless you ask them to. The bubble pack will then be marked as postage due for the person recieving it, in their local PO, and won't be returned to sender.

11/20/2005 7:54:52 PM

Ohio

PA, your lucky, My post office wont send out any bubbles if a grower doesnt put enough postage on it. Maybe i should just drop them in the outgoing mail box instead of taking them to up to the counter.

Brooks

11/22/2005 8:34:49 AM

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It is usually done the way I described and is sent along if its close. They aren't often weighed on either end, if the postage looks close for something simple like a bubble pack. But some out there will be like yours Brooks. Most of the time the 6 x 9 bubbles will be a little over an ounce, which would cost 60 cents to send out.

11/22/2005 9:12:18 AM