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Article: Carol Olson: Remembering when the price was right
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- August 21, 2009
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I've found a new way to gauge my age now that I'm a senior in
more ways than one. When people ask me how old I am, I just say,
"I'm so old that I can remember 3-cent stamps, 5-cent coffee and
phone calls, gas for 25 cents a gallon, and nickel candy bars that
were full of candy and not just covered with a piece of cardboard to
make them look bigger.
Later, while going through a box of old love letters -- yes most
women save them forever -- I found one from 1958 with a 6-cent
airmail stamp on it. We had to decide back then whether to send our
mail regular or airmail, depending on how fast we wanted it to get
there.
Then it seemed that all mail went airmail, no matter how much
postage was on ...