Where to buy stamps?

[ariwriter.livejournal.com]

Other than the post office?

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[jadelennox]

Supermarket customer service desks (Porter Star, for example). Machines in most malls. Online. ATMs from some banks.

[ah42.livejournal.com]

The store at the corners of Highland and Willow sells them, but they mark-up the price a bit.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

is that legal?

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

Why wouldn't it be legal? The post office doesn't give quantity discounts or have wholesale prices for stamps. So if you want to sell stamps to your customers, you either sell them at face value and write-off your associated costs (time spent going to and from the post office, interest not earned on the money you spent on them, insurance, the staff time spent selling them) as an investment in customer good will, or you mark them up. When I was a kid the local grocery store took the former approach, but they went out of business 20+ years ago, and I haven't seen anyone else do it that way since.

[ah42.livejournal.com]

That's what *I* said!

Right before I walked out of the store, sans stamps.

[ron_newman]

It's always been legal. I remember seeing manually-operated vending machines 30+ years ago in stores, which sold stamps at a markup.

[ron_newman]

Wainwright Bank ATMs sell them, but signs say only Wainwright customers can buy stamps.

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

Same for Bank of America. You can buy them if you are a customer.

I am pretty sure CVS sells them, also.

[ron_newman]

Do they again? I remember Fleet customers were upset when B of A first took over and discontinued the stamps.

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

Oh. Maybe I am remembering from before. My boss banks at BofA so I only go there to make deposits for work.

[dfan.livejournal.com]

BoA ATMs don't sell stamps (unless I've just been unlucky in my ATM choice).

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

I thought the Day Street PO had a machine in the 24/7 publicly accessible part of the station, where the PO boxes are. I believe it takes credit cards, even!

PS LOVE your icon!

[ron_newman]

There is no 24/7 part of the Day Street post office. When it's closed, it's closed. (I just walked by there 5 minutes ago to check before posting this.) The PO boxes are right next to the customer-service windows, with no barrier between them.

Maybe you're thinking of some other post office?

[agnosticoracle.livejournal.com]

The UPS store sells stamps. I think Store 24 does, but I won't swear to that.

[ariwriter.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I found it somewhere, forget where though!

[http://users.livejournal.com/urban_faerie_/]

THAT ICON IS AMAZING


sometimes CVS will sell books of stamps. you can ask the cashier.

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

You can also buy them online, www.usps.com (http://www.usps.com/), $1 shipping flat fee, super-fast service. Totally the best option if you want any kind of variety.

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

Are you sure about the $1 shipping fee? I tried the site earlier, planning to post about it here, but it crapped out on me and I gave up. I hadn't reached the stage of it showing me a total yet, which was where I planned to stop. But language earlier in the process made me think the $1 was a handling fee, and that in addition they would charge Priority Mail postage (which is minimum $3.90 IIRC).

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

Yup. I've done it before and I just tried walking through a purchase; at the point where it said "your credit card will be charged this amount" there was a flat $1 fee in addition to the stamp prices. The language is a little weird but I think this:

"All stamp orders are charged a $1.00 Handling Fee, regardless of the order amount. All other products are charged standard Priority Mail fees based on weight of the item and shipping address ZIP Code."

means that stamps are charged *only* for handling while anything else will actually pay postage.