Why no Christmas stamps at post office?

[dangermom]

I had no problem getting the religious Christmas stamps in November. Then I realized I should have gone with getting the children’s book animal stamps for my Chrsitmas cards instead. I only got one sheet of those, and I should have gotten 4. Poo.

[gigi]

They have a new Florida wetlands set out too that’s pretty cool.

[R.P.McMurphy]

@gigi

They have a new Florida wetlands set out too that’s pretty cool.

The best stamp of the year was the Sugar Ray Robinson stamp. He could have whipped Santa Claus’ ass any day even if they were in different weight divisions.

[ouryL]

@Ferret Herder

Eve, I’ve seen “Crops of the Americas” stamps (featuring chiles, corn, and other native crops) available in the stamp vending machines - though lately they’ve been displaced by the snowflake stamps; there are only so many slots in those machines for products. I’m surprised they don’t have anything more interesting at your local office.

I bought the Madonna and Child stamps and the D.C. comics stamps.

[ryobserver]

@SmackFu

My town’s post office is relatively new and has the “store approach” to buying stamps. They are displayed shrink-wrapped on the wall and you choose one and then get in line to buy it. It tooks some getting used to but now people know what’s going on.

Yet bizarrely they don’t do that for the holiday stamps. Instead they have to put up a sign on the wall that says “holiday stamps at the counter”. How weird is that?

You might have to get used to that. The post office I use has had the “store approach” for years now, and they’ve used “Ask at the counter” signs for the Warner Brothers cartoon stamps, the 9/11 and breast cancer semi-postals, and others I can’t recall now. Any stamp that proves to be popular is likely to be held at the counter, at least some of the time. At times the only stamps NOT being held at the counter are the boring non-commemoratives (the flags, the Crops of the Americas, the flower stamps this past summer).