If they are selling the forever stamp for .41 cents, the price the stamps will go up and if you purchase this stamp for 41 cents forever, no matter how much postage continues to go up - if that is the case why not just leave the price of stamps the same.
2007-04-11 05:27:43 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
The first answerer is is correct as far as he goes.
The forever stamp will always be worth the prevailing first class letter rate. What the Postal Service hopes you will do is buy lots of them and not use them for a long time, which is essentially you loaning the Post Office money. If the first class letter rate goes up faster than inflation as a whole, then you may come out ahead.
Canada just issued stamps that are the same idea - they will always be worth the domestic letter rate. The idea is to make money for the Postal Service.
If the Post Office did that with all stamps, it would end up costing them a lot of money (revenue lost because people aren't buying more stamps).
2007-04-11 13:10:32 · answer #1 · answered by F. Frederick Skitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's a scam!! Nobody has enough money normally to but a lifetime supply of stamps. It will be offered for only a period of time and then they will keep jacking the price up. They figure some will buy a year supply or so and then no one will complain to much when next year we are paying $.80 per stamp.
2007-04-11 05:37:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK- so here's how I gather it works. You buy a package of these "forever stamps." They don't have a price on them like they do now. You can keep them and they will be good forever. BUT when you run out of them, you have to buy some more. You buy these new stamps at the newly raised price. If it takes you 2 years to run out of them, they will always be good. It takes away the need for 1c stamps. They don't have to produce them and it saves them money in the long run!
2007-04-11 05:32:31 · answer #3 · answered by agkwatson@sbcglobal.net 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
perpetually stamps shop me money whilst the fees circulate up. In effect, i'm nonetheless paying forty 4 cents quite of forty six to mail that letter. you do no longer could dissipate your modern ordinary stamps, only purchase 2 cent stamps and shop on with one once you employ your ordinary forty 4 cent stamp.
2016-12-20 11:40:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋