>>>Why do we add fuel to a bogus fire?
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>>>If they dump VFP we move on. Oh well. We got over US Mail for a Fax, now Email.
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>>Actually, this gives me an opportunity to note the following: I'm a philatelist (stamp collector), belonging to several stamp forums. The threads on the demise of stamp collecting from electronic communication are *so* close to the threads on vfp demise, it's absolutely scary. It's like a parallel universe, with a time warp, with the same threads repeated in both places over and over...
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>>I also quit worrying about it in both arenas long ago - we can adapt when we need to...(searching for old Russian proverb to insert)
>
>Hmm... may be
>"Chto Bog ni delaet - vse k luchshemu" - "Whatever the God does - it's for the good"
>:)
>
>Nick

Hey Bruce Campbell, I notice that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has a building downtown right near the Smithsonian's Postal Museum. Is that where you work? That sounds ideal for you, although the Postal Museum doesn't seem to have an actual stamp exhibit.