I walked in to a post office with a $5 bill to buy, like, 10 Christmas stamps.
They wouldn’t sell the individual stamps. They said I had to buy a whole book at a time.
All I had on me was the $5, so, I had to leave.
If the post office was smart, they would be willing to sell individual stamps, marking those individual stamps up by a couple of cents to account for the fact that they are not being sold by the book.
They wouldn’t sell the individual stamps. They said I had to buy a whole book at a time.
The only stamps they can tear off and sell individually are the ones you have to lick to stick. They can't break apart packs of the self-adhesive stamps. If you didn't need Christmas stamps they could have sold you individual stamps.