"rodney" wrote in message
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"Ralphael1"
OK, ten different stamps in a coil of 50. Doesn't make sense to me
other than to force collectors to buy more stamps.

With great respect Ralph,
No one is "forcing" anyone to purchase.
That is the choice (and perhaps folly) of the "completionist"

Your ideal of expected behaviour of USPS will never match
their ideal of the profit and loss account.

Nice said, with the supplementary remark that through their buying behavior
the stamp collectors can somehow influence the PO stamps issuing policy.

Please notice that I haven't implied that the collectors can work out this
policy because there are also other factors involved, especially for the
stately owned postal services. Such services have to meet often
contradictory demands of their owners (which is the whole population, in its
full diversity).

--
Victor Manta

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