Pickles by Brian Crane for July 15, 2024

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member 4 months ago

    Keeps USPS in business

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    carlsonbob  4 months ago

    Handwritten letters? What is this, the 1960s?

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    Concretionist  4 months ago

    My brother and grandma had a sort of similar thing going for a couple of weeks 60ish years ago. He needed to send her a letter, but had no stamp so he taped a nickle the envelope. It arrived with the nickle canceled! She took the nickle off the envelope and used it to send a response. Alas, it arrived at his dorm with the nickle replaced by an uncancelled stamp. Which he soaked off and used to send her a letter. THAT one got cancelled.

    I strongly suspect the story is better than whatever they chose to tell each other inside the envelopes.

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    enigmamz  4 months ago

    It’s a vicious circle.

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    iggyman  4 months ago

    Send me a letter, the sooner the better!

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    ᴮᴼᴿᴱᴰ2ᴰᴱᴬᵀᴴ  4 months ago

    like those silly, overly-polite gophers:

    “thank you”

    “no, thank YOU”

    “no, no, Ⅰ insist – THANK you”

    “wouldn’t hear of it – THANK YOU”

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    Acworthless  4 months ago

    Miss Manners would be so proud!

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    PoochFan  4 months ago

    1n 1979, my wife and I moved from PA to Illinois shortly after marrying. I kept in touch with one friend by playing chess by mail using postcards. We’d generally write back within a week, and include just a little news for each other. The game took 2.5 years. The worst part was when you mail the card with your move on it, and then realize you made a mistake. Your opponent hasn’t even received it yet, but you’ll live with the consequences for a long, long time. Good lesson for life! But doing this was a lot of fun.

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    kaycstamper  4 months ago

    Haha, my sister’s done this! I sure miss her.

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    walstib Premium Member 4 months ago

    I hope Opal stocked up on USPS “Forever” stamps before the price increased 5 cents to $.73 on July 14.

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    DawnQuinn1  4 months ago

    I did not like having to write thank-you notes after Christmas, especially for the “lovely scarf” Aunt Barb sent me…that was totally disgusting…but it’s the thought that counts. Right…tell someone who believes you.

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    JudithStocker Premium Member 4 months ago

    Silly, Opal, just silly for this Thank You note.

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    ANIMAL  4 months ago

    Ya never see GUYS doing that.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member 4 months ago

    When I was deployed on the ships I was on, those were the times I would write. It tooks weeks to receive mail. Once in a while, when our ship was in port somewhere, I’d call my wife at a phone booth, and give her that phone # so she could call me back. Somehow it was cheaper that way. It was pretty much a one way conversation where I was doing the listening but it was nice to hear her voice.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member 4 months ago

    Text her…….

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    hariseldon59  4 months ago

    Then Lynda will send a note back to her for thanking her for the thank you note.

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    zeexenon  4 months ago

    And Hallmark’s C.E.O. is laughing all the way to the bank … which is at the precipice of going under.

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  4 months ago

    You can’t say this ends badly because there’s no end in sight.

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    Mike Baldwin creator 4 months ago

    Ask your doctor about, ¨That’s so Thoughtfulitis.¨

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    eced52  4 months ago

    Was there a present at the beginning of this cycle.

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    Strawberry King  4 months ago

    It’ll be back and forth non-stop.

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    "It's the End of the World!!!" Premium Member 4 months ago

    I never got this. When I got married we said thank you to everyone that gave us stuff and came to the wedding (a small one, maybe 70 people).

    A few days later she starts writing thank you cards to send to all the people that gave us gifts and we had already thanked. Gotta be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever done. Wast of time and money.

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    wildlandwaters  4 months ago

    what is this “thank you note” thing she speaks of???

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    zarilla  4 months ago

    Do two thank you cancel each other like two minuses make a plus?

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    Moonkey Premium Member 4 months ago

    My daughter now sends me a picture in a text of her children using whatever I gave them. It always makes me smile. She used to write, then text, now picture. Honestly, I like the pictures. They don’t live more than 10 miles from me, so it’s not like I haven’t seen them for a year.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  4 months ago

    Will the circle be unbroken?

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    Sambora1  4 months ago

    I don’t go through stamps very much because I pay all my bills online but I do still enjoy sending cards to people to let them know I am thinking about them, get well cards, sympathy cards and such. I just sent out 2 sympathy cards last Monday to two close friends who lost their husbands a day apart, one from cancer and one from effects of dementia and poor health due to old age.

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