From the ultimate in

From the ultimate in stupidity file: The student store next to my office has stopped selling books for 20 stamps for $6.60 and instead there's now a vending machine that sells one 33 cent stamp at a time for 50 cents. Let's look at that again, shall we? Fifty cents is 17 cents more than the actual face value, which is also just over half the cost of the stamp itself. Unbelievable...