Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny From: liualan@ix.netcom.com (Alan Liu) Subject: Truth in advertising Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:30:00 PDT URL: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/00/Apr/postoffice.html

The NY Times website carried this story today:

Post Office: No More Alphabet Stamps Filed at 10:22 a.m. EDT
By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Those stamps marked with letters of the alphabet -- used when the price of mailing a letter changes -- have come to an end.

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The spokesman didn't say it, but ending the alphabet series at this point also avoids the next logical step in the series, the "I-rate" stamp.