Local Post Office Tests Stamps for E-mail
FairCityNews.com | Apr 29, 2010 | Comments 0
Nixa, MO—In the wake of the recent projected financial loss of more than 7 billion, the United States Post Office has been searching avidly for new sources of revenue or cost cutting methods, and they just might have found one: stamps for your e-mail. “We had heard that there was a way to transmit letters and even actual words over something called ‘the internet’”, says Nixa Postmaster General Venda Lee. “My grandson showed me an example and right then I knew we had an answer for our troubles.”
New “E-Stamps” will be released soon and consumer demand is predicted to be high. The E-Stamps will look exactly like the stamps currently available, will be sold for the same price, but will be specially designed to stick right to your computer screen. Consumers, grateful for finally knowing how much postage to put on their emails, have already pre-purchased 450 million E-Stamps, and computer retailers have plans to bundle razor blades with every monitor sold in order to scrape used E-Stamps off the screens when they become too full to read.
One question at the forefront of everyone’s mind: How many E-Stamps do I need if my email is especially long? “We ask that people use their best judgment”, says Lee. “One E-Stamp should be enough for short messages, but if you are expecting to send a 12 page email with attached documents with only one, well that’s just not going to happen.”
The E-Stamp may be the golden goose the USPS has been looking for, and this help couldn’t come too soon. One proposed cost-saving change was to eliminate residential postal delivery on Saturdays, but it was met with stiff resistance by consumers. One resident was extremely concerned when told of the upcoming possibility. “That postman is a fixture in my dogs life” mused Tay Lorfox, a Springfield native. “I just don’t know what ‘ole Rex would do on Saturdays if he couldn’t chase (the postman) down the street.”
Time will tell if the postage for emails save the Post Office. As for the E-Stamp, look for it at your local Post Office soon.
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