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- Free Postage!!
- By: TAP Magazine
-
- The Police Station
- 612-934-4880
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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 Elmerss 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.
-
- 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 to
- the 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
-
-
- One last thing you might try doing is soaking a cancelled stamp
- off of an envelope, and gluing it onto one you are sending. Then burn
- the stamp, leaveing a little bit to show that there was one there.
-