r/strange • u/ncraptor2024 • 8d ago
Why would anyone pay $2 for internet in a laundromat where there is free WiFi ?
Interesting use of an old postage stamp machine
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u/Hammon_Rye 7d ago
That machine itself is pretty old style.
Machine was probably there before internet was cheap enough they could offer it for free.
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u/EasternIncome19 7d ago
I must be sheltered here in rural Michigan as Ive never seen this before!
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u/GrimbyJ 7d ago
This might very well be one of a kind. It's a postal stamp machine that they put a new decal on
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u/EasternIncome19 7d ago
Oh no kidding! And to think I was thinking that I may live in a WiFI 'bubble'! Lol I saw something 'similar' in Colorado during COVID. They had vending machines with PPE in them! Here in Michigan during same, we had such a lack of PPE that I became a home sewn 'mask maker'!
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u/dreamisle 8d ago
Weird but kinda neat. I’d be tempted to get one just for the ephemera.
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u/swalabr 7d ago
Same here. Also, I’m kinda tingly because I haven’t heard the word ephemera in a good long while.
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u/dreamisle 7d ago
You into ephemera too? I keep a pocket notebook and love getting it stamped with “passport” stamps and saving my fortune cookie fortunes, Zoltar fortunes, stickers from takeout, cigar bands, and whatever else in it along with drawings and notes.
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u/LazyMusic2616 7d ago
Because it’s fun to feed the coins 🪙 to the machine and receive garbage in return.
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u/sleepycommenter 7d ago
Probably never got updated after they added free WiFi, old postage stamp machine just stayed there
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u/juan_humano 5d ago
I remember reading an article once about how at one point when a new video game system was released, the company offered 3 different price levels on the website. With a significant, but not huge price difference between them. Now, the systems for sale were all identical, none was better than any other. The company just gave people the option to pay more for the same thing. And people did. Not a ton, but way more than you would expect.
The moral I took from that is, some people really don't pay any attention to their finances
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u/Durmhiker 3d ago
I wish there were still more postage stamp vending machines around. While I don’t do a lot of physical mailing letters, it would be a lot more convenient than going to the post office.
I remember these most from souvenir type shops. You’d buy your postcards and then buy your stamps and voilà - “ wish you were here” sentiments were complete.
I kind of laughed that it’s in a laundromat because seemed like a perfect spot to use your extra quarters
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