I do most my shopping online and even with the cost of shipping added, shopping online works out cheaper.. ( not in the past one month though as AU$ is on a southward journey). The first thing I do when I get a parcel if shipped from within Australia is to look at the stamps.. Just like I did when I was living in India all those years ago. Every Christmas/birthday card  envelope is carefully  checked to see if the stamp has a seal on it. And the joy of finding a stamp without the seal.. I am sure I wouldn’t have to describe that, because most of you have felt it at sometime in your life if you grew up in India.. Even those stamps which has a small bit of seal on it is inspected again to see if it can be used again without the post office staff noticing it.

Yesterday I received a parcel and there was 17 $ worth of stamps on it that did not have the seal and I was just so excited. My son was home when I discovered my precious find and he looked at me as if I was an alien.

“What are you doing?” He asked

Clearly it was very obvious to the viewer that I was carefully cutting around the stamps, so I could soak them in water and remove it and reuse it.

“You do realize what you are doing is unethical? Those stamps are not meant to be reused” He said and followed it up with a lecture of how irresponsible I am..

I was so excited to find those stamps without seal and after my son’s reprimand..my helium balloon lost all the air..

Parallel lives we lead..