Sometimes even the simplest things take a while to get used to. A case in point here is paying bills. Again, I think as Americans we have it wwwwaaaaaayyyyyyy too easy.
First, no one comes and reads any of your utility meters. You read your own electric meter and water meter. Then you fill in a form and figure how much you owe. Next you go to the POST OFFICE and pay your bills. The post office looks just like a regular post office in the USA unless you happen to see all of the gum, candy, books, mailboxes, etc. that they have for sale. So, you stand in line and when you get to the front, you can pay your utility bills, buy something to snack own, check out the latest, newest mailbox for your house and even buy a stamp or two.
There are no stamp machines in the whole city ... so you buy them from the counter and of course, international stamps are not sold very often. So, they have to discuss where they are kept and go find them. Nobody gets in a hurry and everybody accepts that this is the normal way to conduct business. I'm trying to figure out if we did the same thing in the United States, maybe we wouldn't have postage increases so often. The more stuff we sold in the post offices, the less our stamps would have to cost. Just a Latvian thought for the day . . .
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