John B. ConnallyUS postage rates are headed up again tomorrow.  A first class stamp will now cost 2-cents more to 39-cents.  A one pound Priority US mail that guarantees 2-3 day deliver will rise to $4.05.  Let those who will huff and puff do so, but I still think the US Postal Service is the best deal in America.  My hat is always off to the men and women who make that 1 0z sliver of paper magically appear thousands of miles away. 

My only problem is that rates don't have to be this high.  Or probably anywhere near this high.

During his term as Secretary of the Treasury John Connally proposed that the Post Office sell stamp faces to advertisers.  John pretty well created a bi-partisan consensus that stamps were sacred and the idea was just plain nuts.  But that was in an era when government was sacred and markets were only tolerated.  This is a new day.  I for one am not at all offended by seeing a Dell computer or can of Jolly Green Giant green beans on a stamp.  Nor is a single stamp collector I have ever queried.  My guess is we could be buying a first class stamp for maybe 30-cents if it had and Apple iPOD on it. 

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