3-Cent Stamp On Demand
For this year's Christmas card mailing, Kathy wanted me to use up some old non-denominational Lady Liberty stamps. I had to research these to find out they were worth 39 cents. When I went to the post office, they were closed, but I was able to use the Automated Postal Center (APC.) I bought several books of 42 cent stamps, thinking I would end up with the Liberty Bell forever stamps. Instead I had these four nutcracker guys show up by surprise.
I was then able to order stamps of "another value" and was able to request 3 cent stamps. I got 5 of them. Since these are print-on-demand, I could have ordered any amount on the stamp, including 1 cent.
As I applied all of the stamps, I regretted not having a pen. I kept wanting to draw an arrow pointing to the more surly nutcrackers with whatever guy's name was on the envelope. "Bob"... "John"... "Grant"... "Jim".... "Ted"... etc.
If any of you guys are reading this, just know that these characters remind me of you. Arrggghhhh.
I got the hairy yellow one today. But, Shirley, he's surely surly.
Nice job on the card, Claire (and all others who helped)!
I got your card yesterday!!! That's 3 days B4 Christmas! Yea.
I don't understand what happened about your stamp purchase. Mine had 42 cents on it.
Once again I am not being very clear. I wrote this story in the order that it happened (which is confusing). I needed to order 3 cent stamps, but had to order the 42 cent stamps first before I could order the 3 cent stamps, because you have to spend at least $1 first. So the surprise of nutcracker guys came in the middle of the story.
I had six old liberty stamps (39 cents) that I used and had to get the 3 cent stamps to go with those. All the nutcracker stamps were new (and worth 42 cents.)