Postage stamps as Legal Tender?

So I ran by the ATM at my bank this morning to withdraw a little cash.  Well, I say MY bank, but really it's the bank that absorbed the bank that absorbed the bank that absorbed MY bank.  MY bank was Coastal Bank...people were friendly and I knew the people there.  They knew me too.

However, Coastal was bought by Hibernia, in the name of customer service.  I didn't really notice better service, but I did notice some of the people I had known in Coastal bank were not there any more.

Then Hibernia was bought by Capital One and I swore I was finding another bank...I mean, afterall Capital One is one of those HUGE, non personal banks, right?

But I digress....

I stopped at the ATM and made my withdrawl.  Then I began to count it...

$20....$40.....$60....book of stamps....$80...

WHAAAAAAT??

So I counted the whole thing and I WAS indeed $20 short on my withdrawl...and I hadn't even planned to go to the post office today.

So I parked and went into the branch (lucky for me they were open!).

I was met by a nice gentleman who said he could help me (I didn't recognize him and he didn't recognize me by the way).  I explained to him what happened and he said he would talk to the ATM specialist.  He went over and talked to a young lady that I didn't recognize and came back with"

"well, it seems the stamps and the $20's were being filled at the same time and got one mixed up".

hmmm...how odd.

So they took my stamps, gave me my $20 and apologized for the mix up.  I said thanks and had a little chuckle.

I didn't even know you could BUY stamps in ATMs...