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    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 16 20:29:19 2023
    Tell us how old you are by dividing today's cost of a first-class
    stamp (66 cents) by what it cost when you were seven years old.
    @gtconway3d

    Btw, 22 for me..."Between 1932 and 1957, the stamp price remained
    steady at 3 cents per letter."

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  • From Michael Trew@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Oct 16 23:45:43 2023
    On 10/16/2023 9:29 PM, JAB wrote:
    Tell us how old you are by dividing today's cost of a first-class
    stamp (66 cents) by what it cost when you were seven years old.
    @gtconway3d

    2.06 cents -- Not too exciting for me. Apparently the rate went up to
    32 cents a few months before I was born.

    Btw, 22 for me..."Between 1932 and 1957, the stamp price remained
    steady at 3 cents per letter."

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Oct 17 05:57:26 2023
    On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 23:45:43 -0400, Michael Trew
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    Tell us how old you are by dividing today's cost of a first-class
    stamp (66 cents) by what it cost when you were seven years old.
    @gtconway3d

    2.06 cents

    If born in 1995...then 7 in 2002

    First-class stamp to cost 37 cents - March 22, 2002
    The U.S. Postal Rate Commission on Friday approved a request for a
    postal rate increase that will jump the cost of first-class stamps
    from 34 cents to 37 cents by June 30.CNN

    66/37 = 1.8 cents rounded up (1.783783783783784)
    66/34 = 1.9...

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