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Failure to bring the precise allotment of coinage leaves you two choices. You can stand in line and pay for your stamps at the desk, or you can stand in line and get change for the stamp machine. Either way, you still must endure the 14,999 people in front of you waiting to send their resumes to Salomon Brothers...
...EQUALLY disappointing waste of resources are the new stamp-vending machines the post office has installed at the Harvard Square location...
Anyone who has ever tried to get stamps anywhere except at the post office knows that drugstore vending machines usually charge about 50 percent more than the cost of the stamps. And when you use them, you usually pay something like 66 cents for a 22-cent stamp and two nine-cent stamps. God only knows what you are supposed to do with the nine-cent stamps. They don't even buy a postcard these days...
...Selling stamps doesn't really require human interaction between buyer and seller. So presumably to save consumers long waits in line for short business transactions, the post office installed stamp-vending machines which sell the books of 20 stamps for the same $4.40 as you pay if you stand in line...
...Angeles, city of therapies, one sees the great American illusion that art is socially therapeutic brought to its apex. Medicean longings inflate the breast of the lowliest junk-bond zillionaire. Whole busloads of fledgling collectors shuttle on regular tours, shepherded by docents, art-investment consultants and "educators" of every stamp, among the private collections of Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Malibu. What other commodity offers such a blend of transcendence and fiscal display? Buying is a spectator sport, and the art gallery the Nautilus center of the soul. But in Movieland, the heat of egotism creates a desire for equal...