When I visited my son Seth and his fiancée in Brazil recently, they asked me to bring their wedding invitations for Americans to the U.S. to mail.  So, the most precious cargo in my backpack was about 40 oversized envelopes containing the prettiest wedding invites I’ve ever seen.

The Post Office, however, didn’t like them so much. There was a lot of discussion about how to mail them because I wanted to use real stamps, and there was no combination of stamps that equaled the correct cost. 

So, I overpaid for a lovely yellow train stamp and a flower stamp.  I sat on a post office bench and with the help of a friend who happened to be in line in front of me attached two stamps to each envelope.  It was a bit of a pain…

But we got the job done.