Two Staples Cost Twenty Cents

I mailed my father’s change of address voter registration on Monday.

Paranoid, I took the form to the post office and asked the clerk to bless it — inspect that it was OK.

First she said, “Fine, put it through the slot marked ‘stamped.’ ”

Then I asked her to examine it again.  She said, “Oh, yeah, you can’t can mail that.  Staples and tape aren’t allowed any more.”

I asked her what people do with voter registration forms, which are designed to be mailed this way.

She said, “Oh, you have to pay twenty cents more.”

“Really, 62 cents for a piece of paper because it has two staples?”

Apparently, it’s now considered irregular.

However, by using a glue stick, it’s possible to send it out for the cost of a normal letter.

So I did.  You can see the staple holes in the left corner by my photogenic thumb.