quicko: postal rates

I recently learned that Australia does something amazing with its postal rates: it lowers them for the holiday season in November and December. I don't know what sort of marketing scheme that is (I always suspected that that season was precisely when the US postal service made the majority of its ends meet -- by keeping prices the same), but I am entirely for it.

In any event, it turns out that an international card can be mailed in this time period of $1.25, as opposed to $2.10 for a letter or $1.40 for a post card normally. Unless of course you're mailing to Asia Pacific, in which case it's $1.45 for a letter. Within Australia, a stamp for a letter is 55 cents.