Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

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Friday, September 2, 2022

Postage Stamps

When it comes to posting a package, I think you need to go a long distance to impress a post office clerk.  That said, a package Desiree’s daughter sent to her from Manila managed to impress both me and one of the clerks at the post office.

When a clerk produced the package from the back of the post office and placed it on the counter where Desiree and I stood waiting, I first thought the package had been wrapped with some kind of decorative paper.  As squinted at the package, evaluating, anther clerk said: “Wow, is that all stamps?  That’s cool.”

Sure enough, almost half the package was covered with stamps.  Rather than posting by means of a single printed sticker, the post office in the Philippines used sheets of postage stamps—150 stamps in total.



Desiree’s Package from Manila

Mitchell Hegman

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