posted on November 16, 2000 12:51:25 PM new
I remembered this am that some people will purchase inexpensive little pocket size notebooks and stop at every po in their travels to collect the po stamp in the notebook. Isn't that a nice idea?
posted on November 16, 2000 01:00:21 PM new
VeryModern...
after you open up the program, go to Print Postage...
then near the bottom right of the page there's an Options button...
open it up and near the bottom LEFT is where you can add the graphic for your return address...
near the bottom RIGHT is where you can add a graphic to the Postage itself...
you get a few graphics with the program but you can use stuff off your computer, too... although the program goes to its own folder by default...
oh, and you can, if you haven't already, get Holiday graphics set from the Stamps.com site as well...
posted on November 16, 2000 01:52:16 PM new
Dear Ms. Pretty Stamps,
There is this big building in town called a post office where you can buy all the pretty stamps you want for your son. I do not have the time to wait while the postal clerk fumbles around in the stamp drawer looking for pretty stamps because you are too cheap to buy them yourself. As a matter of fact I am going to find the ugliest stamps I can and put them on your package. I hope when your son sees the package he becomes so frightened that he will never ask for pretty stamps again. He will then grow up and need psychiatric care for the rest of his life because of his little "stamp problem". He will be an anti-social miscreant and die a lonely old man because of you. SO DO YOU STILL WANT THOSE STAMPS!!
[ edited by BROOKLYNGUY on Nov 16, 2000 01:53 PM ]
posted on November 16, 2000 02:11:54 PM new
I don't know if you can do this in the states----but I can go to a Local Stamp Collector Store (one for collectors--not the post office) and I can buy older stamps for 10 percent less than their face value.
I don't use them on packages going to the USA though--just for ones within in Canada or overseas. Tis a tax reason that other Canadians will understand
posted on November 16, 2000 02:15:53 PM new
I'm using those old 3 or 4 cent stamps all the time to make up the postage for bulk rate, since it always falls between the value of 33 cent stamps. And I don't like to overpay the post office!!
posted on November 16, 2000 02:21:17 PM new
You could use brooklynguy's approach- it has the added benefit that this buyer won't bother you with additional bids in the future.
posted on November 16, 2000 03:54:05 PM new
I think the prettiest and best stamps ever were those Marilyn Monroe beauties. I saved a bunch of them. I don't imagine, though, that mom had those in mind when she made the request. The kid would probably love the dinosaur stamps.
My son is almost eight now and I really don't remember exactly how he became potty trained. I believe there were lots of high fives invovlved and spontaneous bursts of applause for jobs well done. At some point it just seemed to happen. There are aspects of the process that mercifully fade from memory.
I can't help but wonder if potty training is a misnomer. Do we really train them or do they just do what they will in their own good time? Have you ever met an adult who failed potty training(spare me the husband jokes, please!)?
posted on November 16, 2000 09:58:55 PM new
What a great thread! Stamps and potty training all at the same time.
My daughter swears by the cheerios in the toilet as targets for little boys.
And our three-year-old grandson was at our cabin recently taking a walk with me. He had to go, and I suggested he go out in the woods. He was very reluctant until I showed him that he could be a good environmentalist and water a tree--and it worked. My daughter said they'd been trying to train him to go in the woods for a long time.
About stamps: There is absolutely no reason ever to use the ugly flag stamps or eagle stamps when the P.O. has a world of stamps to choose from, and at no extra cost. I have several different sheets going at once and choose the right stamp for the right person. There are neat collectibles on the commemorative sheets of 30's and 40's stamps.
However, I do save the ugly ones for bills!
[ edited by roadsmith on Nov 16, 2000 10:01 PM ]
posted on November 16, 2000 10:14:34 PM new
As a grandmother of a 28 month, and a 4 month, I have kept an envelope near my shipping area for quite awhile. Last week, the 2 year old wanted to play. I took out a notebook, added paper, and as I trimmed the stamps and added a rolled piece of tape to the back, she told me what was on each stamp, and placed several per page. Granted, some overlapped, and there is NO order whatsoever. BUT, now, keeps wanting to do her "stamps". I love it
posted on November 16, 2000 10:34:40 PM new
thanks for the laughs everyone!
I like pretty stamps too. I won't stand in line just to get them when that's all I need, but since I'm always standing in line sending my packages the stamps aren't too hard to come by. So I'd be happy to get the stamps, if my customer had asked.
BUT Last week amid ebay outages I had a customer of mine win a $25 dollar item for $9.99. Then on top of it he requested that I send him a postcard from my area. The item he won had nothing to do with postcards, and I don't even have any postcards, let alone any from my area. I was already bitter that he'd won my item for way less than I should have even started it for under the circumstances. (This was my fault, not my customer's. I do understand that.) But I ignored his request. I'm sorry, I don't have time or money at this point to make a trip to the store just to buy you a postcard on a sale that was not even profitable for me. I felt a little bad about it but I had to draw the line. Well, he kept asking for the darned postcard, 2 more times. I kept ignoring. At this point I don't even feel bad that I may have lost a repeat customer. Who needs one that is that high-maintenence?
I don't have anything to add about potty training.
posted on November 17, 2000 07:29:16 AM new
CAgrrl,
I include free postcards with all of my shipments. The postcards are distributed by "Hotstamp". My husband works at a University and gets them from there. What I really like about them is that the postcards include advertisements for current or future exhibits at the Smithsonion and various art galleries. If you know someone that is enrolled at a local college or University you might want to ask them to look for the postcards for you.
posted on November 17, 2000 10:20:24 AM new
Re: potty training. I like to call it "Potty Learning", because I believe it's something they learn when they are ready. If you think of it as "training", often times the parent is the one "trained" in the end: trained to watch the child for clues and run to the potty with them to avoid a mess!
I approach it like I approach most parenting or teaching issues: provide them with the tools (potty), show them how it works, and let nature take its course. My firstborn son was diaper-free day and night by age 3 with absolutely no pushing from me. Second born son is now 3 years, 2 months old with NO interest in the potty at all, but in time he will figure it out.
Oh and personally, I won't be teaching my youngest to stand and pee!! I'll let him think that sitting is the way it's done until someone tells him differently. I learned my lesson, it was IMO a mistake to tell the first to stand, as it's just more mess for me with 2 males in the house now who can't seem to "color within the lines", so to speak. I don't need a third doing that, I mop enough as it is in the bathroom! Blech.
