USPS Pounds Own Coffin Nails

The other day we popped into the Broadway post office looking for some stamps. But the stamp vending machine was gone, so we had to stand in a 12-person line to buy $1-ish of stamps. We hear that--in addition to uprooting friendly neighborhood mailboxes--the USPS is saving money by removing stamp vending machines from post offices across Washington. You can buy stamps at USPS.com, and they will mail them to you. Sometimes we hate this stupid new online world. We can still get stamps on a whim at Wells Fargo ATMs--maybe they'll move into delivering mail too. God knows the USPS hasn't impressed us there, either.