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by retetr 432 days ago
Your comment made me think of the Terry Pratchett book "Going Postal" in which a conman is put in charge of the post office and quickly realizes what you said: selling stamps is free money. One of my favorites from his later discworld books.
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Yeah, they are little more than the sticker books you buy for kids.
And I had a 3-year-old who proudly showed me the toy covered in "stickers" after he found a book of 100 $0.48 stamps!
ouch!