Date: 2006-09-02 06:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2006-09-02 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ah42.livejournal.com
That's what *I* said!

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

Date: 2006-09-02 11:55 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] 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.

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