It's a lot easier to find a postaage stamp these days. 
     When I a child growing up in New Jersey,  there was one way and ony way only to get a postage stamp: You walked to the Post Office on a weekday from 9 AM to 4 PM (but not during lunch hour) and stood in line. 
     As a college student, I began to notice stamp dispensers in the lobbies of post offices, allowing one to purchase a stamp after postal working hours.  Later  I discovered various stamp dispenser machines outside the post office. When I  first worked in an office I met the postage meter.  It was like magic.  You could even put your own little message under  the stamp.
   The BIG change actually began in 2002, when the U.S. Postal Service licensed Stamps.com to sell computer software allowing one to print postage from a personal computer. Stamps could be digitally printed on labels.  Later developments saw Stamps with your own photos on them!
    Even if you don't want to use a computer program or rent a postage meter, you still don't have to go to the post office these days.  The Post Office is on your computer and you can order stamps right from the Internet.    Okay,  there is my two cents.  $40 more and I can mail a letter right now!        --  L Heckert
Back to Resources