Forever Stamp

So, the Postal Service is proposing a “forever stamp,” which could be bought at the soon-to-be-raised again 1st class stamp price of 42¢, but could be used forever without adding 2¢ or 3¢ stamps as prices are raised in the future. Ruth Goldway of the U.S. Postal Rate Commission warns that “the Postal Service is likely to limit the quantities of forever stamps bought at any one time,” I guess to prevent people, or corporations, with the dosh to buy hundreds of dollars of stamps at a time from stockpiling them (although I don’t imagine there’s a way to prevent some nut with lots of spare cash and time from trolling stamp-sellers to buy $500 worth of forever stamps at once if they were really determined).

I don’t even think I use stamps enough anymore to care about this. An entire roll of forever stamps really would last me forever. Of course, that would require remembering where I put it during the long stretches between sending out holiday cards.