Is it any wonder that the Post Office is complaining about losing money, I had a friend's birthday coming up and was a bit late in sending a card, two days before it. , so I decided to go out early to catch the first pick up, or so I thought, Now I normally just pop the card in a box and think no more of it. I saw the tie of pick up was 5.15 pm , so decided to drive the couple of miles further on to the sorting office. I gave the card to the clerk and he pointed out that the letter was a bit thick for a normal 2nd class stamp, He demo'd putting it through he slot thing and it was about 1mm too thick., he suggested if I put another stamp on it would cover the cost., I didn't have my purse so couldn't buy another stamp right then, on the way back home I stopped at the newsagent to buy a stamp, BUT.... they didn't sell the singly only in books and I didn't have enough small change in the car, this shop by the way used to be a post office ! The lady behind the counter was sympathetic to my predicament and bless her, gave me a stamp from her own purse and wouldn't accept any payment, How kind is that. Hopefully my friend got ther card on time, her birthday was to-day but haven't heard anything.
I cost me over £1 to send the card. I'd made it [my new hobby] and there were some flowers with a pearl in the middle and that was what raised up the height. .
Thank you for visiting and please come back, Arlene, Tango and Ruby