DWYM: Stamps

With stamp prices recently jumping to forty-one cents, everybody is running out to buy books of first-class stamps. But you may not know that where you buy them could make a big difference in how much you pay.

Dorothy Roth, like many of us, needed new forty-one cents stamps.

"And I thought well I'll stop at UPS; they sell stamps. I've been their once before," Roth explained.

She decided to buy a roll at a nearby UPS store.

"I didn't think anything of it when she said forty-five dollars," said Roth.

When she returned home, Roth discovered the store didn't sell her the new stamps, but rather the old thirty-nine cents stamps. She said she could live with that, except she then realized the store had charged her an additional six dollars on the roll of stamps! Which was an additional six cents per stamp.