Zitat des Tages über Porto / Postage:
The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
When I was a campaign worker, you would meet people who would want to vote but didn't have any money for postage. It happens more often than people think.
It's rare that I'm able to get to my desk in the morning without stopping halfway there, turning around, and going in the opposite direction because of a pressing need to straighten all the pictures on the walls, floss my teeth a second time, and make certain that there really are 100 postage stamps in the roll of stamps I bought yesterday.
Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.
