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While I don't particularly enjoy the reason I have to buy 2-cent stamps, I still find it a strangely rewarding task.

You can get like 50 of them for ONE dollar.

Dude, that's awesome.

About the only other useful things in that quantity that you can buy elsewhere are paperclips and index cards.

And they come prepackaged, which isn't any fun.

If you want paperclips or index cards, you don't get to stand in line and then tell someone in a blue uniform that you want 50 of something.

And you can't pick some random number of them, either. It's like you get the 100-pack or whatever.

However, you can buy as many or as few 2-cent stamps, at minimal investment, as your pocketbook will allow.

There is no, "Hello, my jolly good man! I would like to purchase 13 fine paperclips, so that I might join together 13 sets of documents."

You just pick up a box, and then wait in line to pay for them.

That's infinitely less fulfilling of a task.

Plus, the magical addition of a paperclip or an index card doesn't make something else you already have of even greater value.

Suddenly, with an addition of a little 2-cent gum-backed paper, you can turn a practically useless other piece of gum-backed paper into a vehicle that facilitates the activity of postal correspondence.

Which totally rocks.