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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Does anyone remember when we used to
> have _two_ mail deliveries each day as a routine thing, and when
> postage cost only a few pennies at that? PAT]
"The cost of postage really _hasn't_ gone up all that much in the last 75 years. It's *still* about 3 cents a day."
Seriously, when you factor out inflation, the cost of mailing a letter has not increased all that much over the years.