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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Funny: I sent eight graduation cards, the size appropriate to include US currency. I put a crisp fifty in each and mailed all eight. Today four of them came back postage due. Four of the eight identical cards.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have a milligram scale at home, so I weighed them. 14 grams, about half an ounce. A forever stamp carries up to 1 ounce anywhere in the USA. These were all half an ounce and half of them came back stamped postage due.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK then. I put a second forever stamp on there and dropped them back into the post box.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Final funny: exactly one of the four had written on it: Amount Due: $4.22<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>{8^D<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It would be one weird thing if a machine had somehow screwed up, but it was handwritten on the card envelope: $4.22<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please if anyone here is into hard drugs, don’t go to work at the post office. We already have one too many of those working there.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>