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Re: Personal Opinion Telegram and Mailgram - Discontinuance?

Robert Bonomi (bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com)
Fri, 05 Aug 2005 01:12:27 -0000

In article <telecom24.352.10@telecom-digest.org>,

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Does anyone remember when we used to
> have _two_ mail deliveries each day as a routine thing, and when
> postage cost only a few pennies at that? PAT]

"The cost of postage really _hasn't_ gone up all that much in the last
75 years. It's *still* about 3 cents a day."

Seriously, when you factor out inflation, the cost of mailing a letter
has not increased all that much over the years.

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