"One moment please," repeats Lucinda at the Stamp Fulfillment centre of the US Postal Service. Questions and queries on the DC Comics Superheroes commemorative stamp collection sounding like a roundabout tale with no end in sight.
Twenty minutes on crossing time zones leaves no sigh of joy. Exasperation and defeat, however, manages to flow in finding out the abomination resulting from a time poor nation. One rendering the old classic of gum-based backed stamps fewer and fewer in number with each new release of a first day of issue.
Reference numbers, a catalogue only on one side of the conversation leads to certain periods of quiet on both sides. No amount of denial makes the end result any less favourable with the sadness sinking an eyeball into the socket.
For all her efforts, Lucinda never once loses her hold in the times of maddening clicks over the line nearly dropping the entire call.
Lickers and closet collectors of stamps are drinking from an ever evaporating splash pool trying to track down their own play at the stock. Finding a full sheet of legitimate stamps is damn hard.
Thursday, 31 August 2006 - 15:09
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