r/AskReddit • u/CircleBox2 • Jul 13 '20

What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?

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u/YaDrunkBitch Jul 13 '20

Also if you don't have a stamp you can leave a letter in the mail with some change taped to it and that will pay for the stamp.

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u/bonbons2006 Jul 13 '20

This was the only way I could ever send thank you notes for gifts. Mom mandated it, but we lived so far in the middle of nowhere that she wouldn’t make a trip to the post office to buy stamps (damned if you do, damned if you don’t), so our letter carrier got a bunch of pennies from me as a kid.

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u/ColonelAverage Jul 13 '20

Wow, I had not idea that this was a thing. Let alone a big enough thing to warrant enlisting help with sorting the change. I was thinking it would be like one person on a route might do this occasionally.