Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] My visit to the Post Office Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 11:19:37 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:05:34 -0500, Gary Popkin wrote: >=A0At the Post Office today I needed to buy 60 cents worth of= postage for each >=A0of two items I was contemplating mailing (total: $1.20).=A0I= stood on an >=A0interminable stamps-only line (STAMPS-ONLY, and it took forever= for the >=A0counter lady to process each customer), Didn't they have vending machines for all combinations of= postage ? Certainly the Peck Slip station does . I'll put in a twenty to= get just a few stamps to to get change in dollar coins to use as tips . > and in TEN SECONDS I could think of >=A0a better system: how about a vending postage meter, of the kind= that prints >=A0little stickums with the exact postage printed on, along with a= cute saying? To be an advancement , I assume you mean the machine would weigh= the item and you would specify any special conditions and it would calculate= the postage needed ? The problem , of course is not imagining such a machine but= making it robust enough to roll out by the 10s of thousands . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Computing Environment : =A0http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ A WTC vision : http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ Liberty : http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm Restore our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/12/04 11:09:23 AM