Postage Due by The CBS Radio Mystery Theater

Strange Tales (Old Time Radio)

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🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We'll hear from The CBS Radio Mystery Theater for this week's strange tale. From July 29, 1981, here's their story, Postage Due. Listen to more from The CBS Radio Mystery Theater https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/e55e1c7a-e213-4a20-8701-21862bdf1f8a/StrangeTales827.mp3 Download StrangeTales827 | Subscribe | Spotify | Support Strange Tales Relic Radio is funded solely by listener donations. If you would like to help support it, visit Donate.RelicRadio.com for more [...]

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0:00.0	Strange Tales
0:02.0	RELES
0:03.0	Relicradio.
0:20.0	Relic Radio.com presents tales of the strange and bizarre, the weird and the wicked.
0:26.2	Stories not necessarily of the supernatural, but of the unnatural.
0:35.1	Join us now for Strange Tales,
0:39.9	featuring radio drama at its most mysterious and unusual.
1:03.0	Welcome back to Strange Tales, Weird Stories from the Golden Age of Radio every Sunday at RelicRadio.com.
1:14.4	Our story comes from the CBS Radio Mystery Theater this week, series that debuted in 1974, aired until 1982, and produced 1,39 original episodes.
1:16.4	Our story today is from July 29, 1981.
1:20.5	It's titled Postage Due.
1:22.2	Music For a CBS Radio Mystery Theater presents.
1:40.7	...PraS Radio Mystery Theater presents...
1:42.3	... Present.
1:59.1	Come in.
2:08.7	Welcome. I'm E.G. Marshall. The eternal optimist is often ridiculed for his hopeful vision, his lofty ideals, and his unrealistic advice. Consider the optimistic cliche,
2:15.7	it's never too late, Or, better late than never.
2:20.4	Is that always the case?
2:22.9	Or do some occasions exist where we might fare better
2:26.3	with a more negative piece of advice?
2:29.4	Leave well enough alone, for example.
2:32.3	We could find that money.
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