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Stickers and Stamps!
I saw a post the other day where someone asked their postal carrier what they could do to help the USPS. The carrier replied “buy stamps”. This got me thinking.
I have a bunch of stickers made with my inkyDays drawings. I was planning on giving them out at upcoming Art and SciArt events. And then Covid happened.
I want to support the USPS, even if it’s in a very small way. I can buy stamps, and mail the stickers to people.
Most of my correspondence has been only online for many years. I don’t have current mailing addresses for a lot of folks. So, I set up a google-form for people to send me their postal address and request a sticker. So far, it’s working alright, and I’ve already received a few requests and plan to send out my first batch this week.
With the intentional slow-down of mail delivery, we don’t know how long it will take for a parcel (be it an envelope with a sticker in it or a ballot) to arrive at it’s destination. Perhaps we can conduct a crowdsourced experiment. With this in mind, I’m recording when I take the envelopes to the post office and then asking…
