Last night, I went out for a beer with Molly, Hadley, Sam, Nancy, and Marta, and the following conversation happened (I'm paraphrasing because it was in french):
Nancy: wait, I want to ask you guys about something, does this happen in your country?
Marta: (laughing) oh yeah, we talked about this yesterday.
Nancy: whatever. ok. when you send a letter, do you have to buy a stamp to put on it?
Americans: yes.
Nancy: so, like, you put it all in an envelope, then you stick a stamp on it?
Americans: yes.
Nancy: that is so weird, because--
Marta: yeah, we talked about this for like 3 hours yesterday.
Nancy: no, for like 15 minutes. well anyway, in Venezuela, you just bring your letter to the post office and buy an envelope and then they mail it for you.
Marta: yeah, but the envelope must have a stamp on it already.
Nancy: no, you don't put anything on it. There's no stamp.
Marta: yeah but that's just because you've never looked at it. There must be either a stamp or some kind of built-in stamp on the envelope, or else they put it on after you leave.
Nancy: I don't think so.
Americans: yeah but there must be some kind of indication on there that you've paid the postage...
Nancy: I don't know...
So this conversation went in circles for about 45 minutes, and we ended up agreeing to disagree. We couldn't believe a silly little thing like sending a letter could be so different
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