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- Free Postage!!
- By: TAP Magazine
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- The increasing cost of postage to mail letters and packages
- is bringing down our standard of living. To remedy this
- deplorable situation, some counter control measures can be
- applied.
- For example, if the stamps on a letter are coated with
- Elmer's Glue by the sender, the cancellation mark will not
- destroy the stamp:
- the Elmer/s drives to form an almost invisible coating that
- protects the stamps from the cancellation ink. Later, the
- receiver of the letter can remove the cancellation mark with
- water and reuse the stamps. Furthermore, ecological saving will
- also result from recycling the stamps. Help save a tree.
-
- The glue is most efficently applied with a brush with stiff,
- short bristles. Just dip the brush directly into the glue and
- spread it on evenly, covering the entire surface of the stamp.
- It will dry in about 15 minutes.
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- For mailing packages, just follow the same procedure as
- outlined above; however, the package should be weighed and
- checked to make sure that it has the correct amount of postage on
- it before it is taken tothe Post Office.
-
- Removing the cancellation and the glue from the stamps can
- be easily accomplished by soaking the stamps in warm water until
- they float free from the paper. The stamps can then be put onto
- a paper towel to dry. Processing stamps in large batches saves
- time too. Also, it may be helpful to write the word 'Elmer' at
- the top of the letter (not on the envelope) to cue the receiving
- party in that the stamps have been protected with the glue.
-
- We all know that mailing packages can be expensive. And we
- also know that the handicapped are sometimes discriminated
- against in jobs. The Government, being the generous people they
- are, have given the blind free postal service.
- Simply address you envelope as usual, and make one
- modification. In the corner where the stamp would go, write in
- (or stamp) the words 'FREE MATTER FOR THE BLIND". Then drop you
- package or letter in one of the blue fedral mailboxes.
-
- DO NOT TAKE THE LETTER TO THE POST OFFICE, OR LEAVE IT IN YOUR
- MAILBOX.
-
- Sounds very nice of the government to do this, right? Well,
- they aren't that nice. The parcel is sent library rate, that is
- below third class. It may take four to five days to send a
- letter to just the next town.
-
- This too is quite simple, but less effective. Put the
- address that you are sending the letter to as the return address.
-
- If you were sending a $20 donation to the pirate's Chest, you
- would put our address (po box 644, lincoln ma. 01773) as the
- return address.
-
- Then you would have to be carless and forget to put the
- stamp on the envelope. A nice touch is to put a bullshit address
- in the center of the envelope.
-
- Again, you MUST drop the letter in a FEDRAL mailbox. If the
- post office doesn't send the letter to the return address for
- having no stamp, they will send it back for the reason of "No
- such address".
-
-
- Example--
-
- Pirates Chest
- P.O. Box 644
- Lincol, Ma.
- 01773
-
- Tom Bullshit
- 20 Fake Road
- What Ever, XX
- 99851
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- One last thing you might try doing is soaking a cancelled
- stamp off of an envelope, and gluing it onto one you are sending.
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- Then burn the stamp, leaveing a little bit to show that there was
- one there.
-