One of the girls at the photocopy place was putting stamps on some mail ... you know, regular mail, snail-mail, old-fashioned post-office thing that doesn't come with a "Send" button ... you get the point. An envelope, address, stamp. The real thing. When you get collectible stamps, etc. I'm trying hard to be redundant because this was not a regular envelope: it was an inflation-stricken letter, created by Freddy Krueger ... aestethically inadequate. Ugly. Expensive-looking. A bastard child of inflationary economies.
See for yourself:
This deserves an explanation. Sending letters to the Province of Buenos Aires used to cost $ 6.50 (u$s 2 and a bit). Stamps were denominated in $0.75 and $0.25, some higher even. Now snail-mail - unlike its digital counterpart which cuts costs constantly - is increasing its prices. Sending a letter to the province now costs $11.50 or so (almost u$s 4). And stamp denomination was not automatically "increased", since they are printed and it takes time. So, they now have to use a crapload of stamps - filling 50/60% of the envelope, to put enough stamps ... God save us all from oblivion.
Snail-mail is dead. Long live snail-mail.
