Increasing stamp costs

In this day and age of emails and social media, I had the occasion to write a letter last Friday. It was the only way for me to reach out to someone. 

However, having written a letter, I now had to go to the Post Office to send it out and it was then that I received a big surprise. 

For a one-page letter sent by ordinary mail to another part of the peninsula, I was charged RM1.30 for the stamp. Initially, I thought that it was ridiculous. The stamp costing RM1.30? But I had no choice but to pay up. That's how much increasing costs had bumped up the prices at even the postal services. It's not cheap to send letters any more.

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