Went to the post office to buy a few postcard stamps and they said they were nearly all out. People had been buying them by the roll to send out Get Out The Vote cards. “One lady bought a thousand! I’ve never seen someone buy so many stamps.” said our postmistress.
Our little state’s electoral votes may not matter much in the grand scheme of the general election, but we’re all doing our part.
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@[email protected] I live just outside of Chicago and our Post Office didn’t have any stamps. I was told “No one sends postcards anymore”.
Had drive another 20 minutes to another post office to buy stamps.
We will not be deterred!
#VoteBlue
@[email protected] I feel you, Vermont. Love, New Mexico. :)
@[email protected] We bought our stamps a few weeks ago. I did 200 postcards for Georgia and spousal unit did 500 for Kansas! Mailed them yesterday. Fingers crossed they will reach their destinations on time.
@[email protected] Speaking as someone in a swing state, I’ve gotten a few of those. I told my husband not to throw them away with the other political ads because if someone took the time to write out a message to me, I will respect them and read it. 👍
@[email protected] might be a little too late at this point, but I ordered mine directly from the post office, only took a couple days🙂
@[email protected] it’s good, they were nearly out, not out so I was able to buy the to that I needed, I just thought it was a nice anecdote.
@[email protected] \o/ yayy
@[email protected] I bought the last roll at our main branch yesterday for this reason.
@[email protected] They likely aren’t, but those stamps should be treated as tax-deductible, at least if over some dollar amount was spent on them through the election season.
@Krosen_nw Well, like I said, I don’t know that it can be. Just think it should be, at least in the future, is all.
@JustRosy @Krosen_nw Yeah you’d have to have a pretty specifically-defined business for this to fly, but postage generally can be a deduction for a business that I know I’ve used in the past.
@jessamyn Yeah, that’s what I figured. Weird how a business could get a tax deduction for that, but not an individual. I cry foul!
@[email protected] Yep, tax law in the US greatly favors corporations.
@[email protected] Maybe what’s needed then is a non-partisan company that deals with this stuff, that people can become contracted members of, which can buy the stamps, get the tax deductions, and then let people come pick up the stamps for free? Could that even work, and would that be legal? If not, then nevermind, but I do think it’s unfair that businesses could at least potentially do such a thing, yet individuals definitely can not. I think it would make more sense, in the end, to update the tax code (this would mean less red tape and no one having to start a business over something like this). Anyway, just some thoughts.
@[email protected] Yeah tax deductions are very very complicated and also very very political. I’m definitely a “stay in my lane” person and try to work on the things I am able to affect (working on local initiatives, and library stuff at a broader level). No shade to other people who want to do this important work and do not want to pooh-pooh your idea (it’s a good one!), but I’m probably not the person to ask about it.
@[email protected] Yep. When I dropped off our 400 postcards, the post office lady said there are so many people dropping off postcards this year compared to previous years. Hopefully, that is a good sign for Dem. because we are more organized than Rep.
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Great to hear this — thanks!@[email protected] Sarah wrote hundreds of post cards to people in PA. I had to break into our postcard stamp stash to cover a few.
@[email protected] We’ve had postcard stamp shortages here in TN too… The group I’ve been working with has mailed nearly 6,500 postcards
