Want to Buy Stamps at the Post Office? Good Luck.

its no problem if they open more checkouts at the counter. 35 min waits are already the norm and we need more windows open anyway..

I walked into the post office on Sunbeam a couple days ago and noticed a brand new style machine that could provide stamps as well as weigh packages and print metered postage.

If your time is so valuable that you can't wait in line to buy stamps at the post office then order them online, or purchase stamps at many other stores that sell stamps.

Be sure to buy at least 6 months worth of stamps, so you don't have to worry about wasting any of your valuable time again for a long time.

The post master is right, more and more people, like myself, pay everthing online. If it wasn't for us having to send a monthly credit card bill to his ex, we wouldn't need them at all.

Some of these "Alternate Places to Buy Stamps" charge more than the stamps cost. A "convenience fee". I think if the post office won't sell you stamps, they should make it illegal for 3rd parties to charge more than face value for the stamp.

Amazing Grace wrote:

If your time is so valuable that you can't wait in line to buy stamps at the post office then order them online, or purchase stamps at many other stores that sell stamps.
Be sure to buy at least 6 months worth of stamps, so you don't have to worry about wasting any of your valuable time again for a long time.

Dont buy a large supply of them because the price of postage will go up and then you need to go back to the post office to buy one cent stamps. I have a desk drawer full of stamps that I dont even know the value of anymore because of postage increases and they dont put the value on some of them. What a racket!

terry trantham wrote:

its no problem if they open more checkouts at the counter. 35 min waits are already the norm and we need more windows open anyway..

I know! I waited in line for 45 minutes just to ship a package! There were only TWO workers, working at the counter,the rest were laughing and joking in the back. I was fumming mad by the time I left.

I always buy mine @ the grocery stores

I use to work for these idiots. They told me i could not buy stamps for my customers and deliver them the next day on my route. They are NOT the postal SERVICE!

Texaco used to clean your windshield when gas was 35 cent a gallon.
Now...they should be giving you an oil change and and free all nude girl car wash $3.60 a gallon.
Soon we'll be reading about counterfeit postage.

Taking the vending machines out of the post office is un-american. We have vending machines for everything in this country. Another way the U.S. Postal Service decides what the consumer wants. Now wonder people are using any means necessary to avoid using this inconvenient service.

Breaucrats **** Try the St. Augustine office. Better than bumper cars getting in and out!

The stamp machines were the only place you could routinely get a $1 coin in change for a purchase. RIP stamp macnines.

I'm so old fashioned, I still get mine at the post office. I didn't even know stores sold them. I bought a stamp from a machine (just a regular stamp) at the post office on Belfort Rd. and it was $1!!!

OK, fine, since they want to sell stamps at the stores now, how abouy they provide packages and mailboxed there too!

I think those clerks at the post office are just tired and lazy anyway. They take their time when there's a long line and they don't care! I also get angry when I have to wait 30 minutes just to buy a stamp. Why don't they just create a separate line for those who only want stamps!! This is rediculous

screw the post office. I don;t use stamps on their SNAIL MAIL.
All of my bills are paid ELECTRONICALLY.
Every day my mail box is filled with JUNK that I wish I could STOP.
Why do these idiots waste all that gas by still delivering nothing but JUNK 6 days a week.
CUT DELIVERIES TO 5 days or 3 days and save GAS!!!!!!!!!!

Couldn't the post office pool all the machines for spare parts then have at least one at the post offices? The one I use has (or should I say had) 3 machines.

Inconspicuous wrote:

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Dont buy a large supply of them because the price of postage will go up and then you need to go back to the post office to buy one cent stamps. I have a desk drawer full of stamps that I dont even know the value of anymore because of postage increases and they dont put the value on some of them. What a racket!

If you simply buy the forever stamps you can buy as many as you want! They go up to whatever the postage goes up to!

nonya wrote:

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I know! I waited in line for 45 minutes just to ship a package! There were only TWO workers, working at the counter,the rest were laughing and joking in the back. I was fumming mad by the time I left.

Are you sure it wasn't carriers in the back - or other non-clerks?

Amazing Grace wrote:

If your time is so valuable that you can't wait in line to buy stamps at the post office then order them online, or purchase stamps at many other stores that sell stamps.
Be sure to buy at least 6 months worth of stamps, so you don't have to worry about wasting any of your valuable time again for a long time.

I don't understand why people don't take advantage of the stamps-by-mail we've been pushing for over 15 years now. Fill out the form, write a check, and the stamps are delivered to your door in 2-3 days. I work there and even I find this the most convenient way. I also find it frustrating to get in line and find half the people are the clogging up the line uneccesarily just to buy stamps. Unfortunately, times have changed and the local Post Office is not where the lonely and elderly can go to chat with the workers.