Bidenomics: Price of Postage Stamps Going Up Again on Sunday (Up 24 Percent Since 2021)
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Well, a 2% postage stamp price increase is rather limited, considering the rest. Compare this to the gold price, although UPU no longer uses gold, but SDR, a basket of currencies.
It is interesting to note, that on average, whether you go back pre 1971 or not, the Stamps more or less costs the same amount of gold.
when you look closely at the 68 cent stamps, there is no longer a denomination on there, nor a value. This is a deviation from standing practice to make documents into an equity document: like contracts and such.
There have been times where money was in short supply, and people used stamps, glued to a piece of carton, to exchange goods and services.
It is also interesting to note, that the Post-office was actually the first office created, even before the military where it concerns the US of A. Benji Franklyn was such a schemer and secured quite a nice loan from France to support the ongoing freedom movement.
See "encased postage stamps"
Here is an auction listing https://stampauctionnetwork.com/y/y106637.cfm
I've never considered the possibility of the practice returning with a value based on inflation priced forever stamps. Not sure if stamps are really used much anymore. I have an envelope of forever stamps but I think it's been 10 years or more since the last time I used a real stamp.