Comments on: How To Buy Stamps Under Face Value

By: Stamper

Stamper — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:11:41 +0000

I once used a stamp that was not canceled and it was returned to me.. as requiring postage. I suspect that UV ink is used and may not be visible to the eye .. anyway if your letter is important it’s probably not worth the risk of taking off a stamp that appears to not be canceled.

My 2 cents worth.

By: My Boaz's Ruth

My Boaz's Ruth — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:08:03 +0000

It is actually illegal to reuse stamps that have gone through the mail, even if they did’t get cancelled.

By: pfadvice

pfadvice — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:52:49 +0000

ooops…sorry about that…saw the first paragraph and missed the following ones before posting…

By: pfadvice

pfadvice — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:50:58 +0000

I'm not sure why this isn't more widely known, but you can actually buy stamps anytime for 3% - 10% off face value (a much better deal than at cosco) from stamp dealers. They buy huge lots and want the valuable stamps, but want to get rid of the stamps that aren't worth more than their face value asap and therefore discount them. If you send a lot of mail such as packages for online auctions, these places are great!

By: mbhunter

mbhunter — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 05:57:47 +0000

I saw a set of four unused sheets of stamps at an estate auction. The face value of the stamps was $25. I guess that I was the only one who figured that out, because I was highest bidder with $11!

They probably had some philatelic value, but I sold them to someone at a flea market for face value.

By: ~Dawn

~Dawn — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:05:12 +0000

My grandma used to use the small denomination stamps, one time I got a letter with almost 3 complete ROWS of stamps! It was so funny, they couldn’t cancel all of them, so at the time, when I wrote her back I included a few that weren’t cancelled…..

Thanks for that memory