Stamp Collector

When I moved in to my suburbia residence back in March, one of the first items of business was to join Sam's Club (I think this was a clause on my mortgage). As many of you know, Sam's Club has various items that can be bought in bulk. So, on one of the first trips to The Club it seemed like a wise idea to buy a bunch of stamps (do not get ahead of me), actually it was an even 100. Since I am a person who likes to make things easier for myself, it seemed like a no-brainer, I will never run out of stamps, I will never be in that position where I have something to send but have no postage..... When I heard the price of postage was going up I realized the predicament I had put myself in. You see, in an effort to make things easier for myself, all my bills are paid online. I really only need a stamp maybe once every few weeks or so for the occasional b-day card, etc.... I now have over 70 stamps that are at the 37 cent rate. Meaning I had to go buy an equal amount of 2 cent stamps. My wife went online and ordered 80 stamps from the USPS website for a whopping $2.60 charge on the credit card ($1 for shipping). She ordered the stamps last Wednesday. Now, how long would you expect it to take the post office to deliver stamps? Maybe our expectations our too high, and granted there was a holiday on Monday, but we were expecting them to arrive no later than Saturday. I guess I do not understand why this should take so long. Part of my impatience may be due to the fact that I now have something to send out in the mail, but no postage to do it with (too stubborn to put 74 cents of postage on it). Bigger Picture - based on my current supply of stamps, I estimate that I will be using the 37 cent stamps from Sam's for about the next 4 years (2010). I wonder how much additional postage I will need to buy between now and then. -w