When Granpa was my age, it cost only 3¢ to mail a letter. When the letter Georgie found in his basement was originally mailed in the 1950s, it cost 4¢. Now mailing a one-ounce letter costs 44¢.
In Cheesie Mack Is Not a Genius or Anything, I wrote:
I wonder what it will cost to mail a letter fifty years from now…Maybe when I get enough guesses, I’ll put them into some kind of Internet time capsule, and fifty years in the future, if someone finds it, they’ll be able to see how close we were.
This page is as close to an “Internet time capsule” as I know how to build, so at the bottom of this page, you can make a guess.
Here’s a chart showing how the cost of mailing a letter has changed for almost the last 100 years.
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Ill be hmmmm…… 60 years old… im 10 right now.
u completely copied me
you wanna want to know what i think cheese person 88 cents.look here 50 is half of 100 88 is half of 44 so Kid is not guinuis or anything
ill be hmmmmm …….. 61 yrs. old . i am11 right now
I’ll be 61, too!
people 50 YEARS FROM NOW DUH………….. IT’IL BE MORE THAN FREE MADI GOD
It’ll probably be free because with the technology rising In the industries and It’ll be electronic… With a robot helping you. We might not even have Post offices!
No post offices…? That is a really interesting possibility.
i think that to mail letters will be around 100 dollars i dnt know!
I think fifty years from now most people will not use the mail service as much but they will still use because what if they want a magazine or the newspaper??You need a mail or newspaper service to do that .Also Cheesie what do you think postage will cost fifty years from now??
You might be right about that IF those magazine and newspapers are still being printed on paper.
I am not going to say what my guess is because I don’t want to influence the vote.
Oh true they may not even be printed on paper. Also i can see now why you dont want to say what you think it will be to mail a letter.
I did a math equation. 90 years is to 41 cents = 50 years to how many cents. (I used the calculator) And I found out it will be 23 mroe cents than it is now. so it was 67 cents!
Very good math, but the price is rising faster now than it used to, so maybe it’ll be more that you calculated.
I didn’t think about that.
hi Cheesie!! today my class is going to meet Steve Cotler!! which is probably you!!! this book is awesome!! it is so funny!! today im going to buy one from you!! Please keep on writing more books and good luck with them!!
I voted for “free because it’ll be electronic,” but that’s not my exact answer. I predict that there will be post offices and mailboxes and stuff like that, but nobody will ever need them because everyone will just use e-mail.
You might be right, but what will you do if you want to send something like an old coin? You can’t send that by email.
Maybe by teleporter? Who knows what we’ll have in the future!
Good thinking, Jack L. I never thought of that.
maybe we dont have to mail because we will have messaging clips in our heads
i dont think you are the real cheeseie!! i think you are an imposter!!
That’s your opinion. But how do I know you’re the real Mondy? You might be someone else. Maybe someone named Mondonna. Who knows?
you are correct my name is Mondonna!! tee hee. I am so glad you came to our class and taught us more about cheesie and georgie!!
i actually think that we will have a different form of currency like gold slivers or somthing.