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Originally Posted by Debbie D
IMO our postage stamps are dirt cheap...just ask any European.
Postage for first class was 5 cents when I was a kid. It definitely hasn't kept up with the cost of living...
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I agree.... your postage IS cheap!
When I was young we didn't have decimal currency in Australia, and postage cost sixpence. We went digital in 1966 and that sixpence converted to 5 cents.
Now, the lightest possible article here costs 60 cents to post (55 cents at Christmas), and a parcel costs the moon. I sent Christmas gifts to an Internet friend overseas in December. There were 6 items in the package, the heaviest being a T-Shirt, and it cost me $45 to send the parcel by the slowest, cheapest way possible. I have another (bigger) package ready to post to and I'm expecting to have to pay at least $70 for that.
At those prices, there's no way I can afford to send anything by airmail.
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