Postage stamps are "small, usually adhesive, labels issued by the government and sold in various denominations to be fixed to items of mail as evidence of payment of postage."
July 1, 1885 marked the lowest price of the postage stamp for letters at 2 cents each. As of January 22, 2012, the postage stamp costs 45 cents. Although these stamps only cost 45 cents, it takes a million of them to ship anything bigger than a normal small letter... such as a:
As for my opinion, I do not like postage stamps because they are so expensive, and the prices on them are rising, however, they are fun and easy to use:
they come in lots of different colors and designs...
and a clever way of telling if someone payed for their package/letter or not...
and plus, if no one used postage stamps for "snail mail" anymore, it wouldn't be any fun...
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