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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Every once in a while I buy a coin sent with a big assortment of stamps for postage. I'm assuming that these sellers are getting them for less than face. I have found auctions of such stamps on e-bay. Are there pitfalls? (I apologize if this is not correct forum).
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Valued Member
Canada
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Yes and some coin dealers have shops where people bring in stamps. Stamp collecting has gone down hill and most mid-century stamps were horde in large numbers. Lots of dealers will buy old stamps at 50% face and then use/sell them.
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Moderator
 United States
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Make sure the seller states they have the gum, otherwise you have to apply glue to them. The stamps I sell on ebay all have full gum and are guaranteed to be usable as postage. (I just don't have any listings right now because I am traveling to see my new granddaughter and don't want to be burdened with ebay listings.) I will have some more listed in July. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This would explain the outrageous coverage on a package I got a couple of weeks ago -- as many as would fit on both sides of the envelope, and USPS still had to add a sticker for the balance.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I've received a couple like that loaded from edge to edge with stamps, and I find them quite refreshing.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
5255 Posts |
The other pitfall is that you don't want many low denomination stamps as they take up envelope real estate rapidly, as has been pointed out.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1211 Posts |
"KHatt" hit the nail on the head. Pretty interesting any time I get a package totally plastered in stamps.
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
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 Good one |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1949 Posts |
You can generally buy unused U.S. postage for around 60% of face from certain stamp dealers, and since I don't have the extra time to sit around and count out and affix stamps, I've found a dealer who will do all that and I get the prestamped envelopes for 75% of face
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Posted 06/21/2018 11:12 pm
