I ordered four sheets of Celebration Blooms Forever stamps directly from USPS in July to use for my wedding invitations.

When I went to use them, I could not for the life of me figure out how to get a stamp off the sheet. I’d only ever used stamp booklets before, so at first I genuinely thought I just didn’t understand how sheets worked.

After some googling and texting my friends to make sure I wasn’t crazy, I realized it was the stamps, not me. All four sheets appear to be missing the die cuts around the individual stamps.

I almost exchanged them with USPS, but thankfully it occurred to me that a production error might be worth looking into first.

Has anyone seen this error on Celebration Blooms before? Any tips on what I should do next?

I happened across this sheet of what I assume is 80s French stamps, but they have this tape over them. Is there any way to get the tape off without destroying them? Or do I just leave it?