A Lick and a Promise

I spend most of my hours viewing and sharing digital content. But I’m still always in awe when I send a letter and it actually arrives at its destination. It just seems impossible that someone will come pick something up from my mailbox and drive it, then fly it, then drive it, to someone else’s mailbox for only 68 cents. Andrea Valdez in The Atlantic (Gift Article) with an interesting look at Why We Still Use Postage Stamps. “Stamps serve a purpose that is not merely functional. If you look back far enough, they also tell a story about national identity, and the technological and cultural trajectory of America. Stamps ‘are both miniature art works and pieces of government propaganda.'”