Pluggers by Rick McKee for September 16, 2023

Pluggers also remember air mail envelopes.

I still use them. And write checks for bills. When I die, my kids will be able to follow the paper trail, even if the internets are down.

What is there to remember we still use them ;-)

S&H Green Stamps were worse, and also Plaid Stamps. Now, those are real throwbacks for Pluggers to remember!

You could almost boil this down to “Pluggers remember mail”, though I feel there’s more to pluggerdom than age.

Whose face is on that stamp, President Arf-field?

And the two cent stamp……

Anybody remember “Special Delivery”? That was when the mail piece would be delivered to the recipient as soon as the post office received it (instead of being delivered on the next carrier route). Or the pre-zip code era… you would see addresses like “New York 41, New York”.

I remember licking S&H Green Stamps. Dad always got the full page sets and used a sponge. Us kids got the odds & ends and had to lick them and put them in a book. Over the years my mother redeem them for a lot of items that helped the budget go further.

How about S&H green stamps?

Pluggers also remember the occasional paper cut on the tongue from licking those stamps!

Soaking off the self-stick stamps takes much longer. Stamp collecting just ain’t what it used to be.

I know exactly where my stamps, envelopes and checkbook are, because many tradespeople that I employ to do things around my house don’t want to pay the credit card companies.

Well, I’m 77, but I bet there are pluggers in their 20s, who don’t remember, or care.

I visit my local post office once a month just to make sure it’s still there and purchase a few new stamps.

My Forever stamps are self-stick no licking.

We still use stamps to pay our bills. We just don’t have to lick them any more.

Might that be Checkers, President Nixon’s dog, on the stamp? (Boy, am I showing my age with this comment!)

Pluggers remember when you had to lick postage stamps. When was the last time USPS sold a stamp you had to lick, anyway?

And I still have stamps, even though I think I use two a year (because my dentist hasn’t switched to online bill pay) – Peanuts stamps, come to think of it.

Pluggers like to mess with the heads of their younger grandkids by leaving something like a rotary dial phone or a slide rule on the table with no explanation. . . . .

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Wait, is Pluggers implying that a thing that we had in the past and no longer have might’ve been less than perfect? UNACCEPTABLE, BURN THE HERETIC

I heard about a 20-year old who visited Greece and purchased stamps in order to mail some postcards back to the states. He had only known self-adhering stamps all his life, and Greece still issues gummed stamps. He struggled with the stamps for 15 minutes trying to figure out how to take the backing off. He finally resorted to Google which explained to him how to use gummed stamps.

Times have sure changed …… years ago I use to buy stamps by the roll …. then sheets …. then books and now sleeves with self stick stamps ……. :)

I read a long time ago that cockroaches eat the glue from stamps and envelopes so to avoid any chance of exposure I decided never to lick a postage stamp or an envelope. Was I ever happy when they introduced the self adhesive ones

i still use stamps

I remember one my cats who enjoyed the flavor of a particular postage stamp glue formulation. That Christmas he licked all the stamps for my Christmas cards, as I needed them. (Of course, I couldn’t trust him to lick the envelopes without getting a paper cut.)

As a kid, I used to actually like the flavor!

The Post Office now sells stamps mostly as collectibles. You can get a quarterly catalog. They come out with new stamp issues on a regular basis.

Pluggers trying a fifty something year old tab of acid.

Yeah… one of my primary jobs at Christmas was licking those special Christmas card stamps ;-)

I also remember having to buy one cent stamps, because the rate went up, again.

I not only use stamps, but I have them in an assortment of denominations up to US$5. I have three envelopes in desk drawer with our stamps in them – first ounce, multiple ounces, and Christmas stamps. I tend to go with general flag stamps for us for the first ounce for general use.

In a folder in the horizontal stack of holders on my desk – in the holder for my embroidery chapter (as treasurer) which have flowers on them so I can easily know that they are for the chapter and not for us. Another similar folder is for our reenactment unit with stamps for them – in this case they are Purple Heart stamps. The original of our unit took part in one of the battles for which Purple Heart medals were first issued (and not issued for injuries).