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Just thought everyone would get a laugh out of this shipment I got from an online supplier Monday.  It was 35 ASE cubes/tubes in a box 9x11x6 inches. The postage was $11.65 and the box had eight 10 cent stamps, thirty-five 15 cent stamps, and twenty-eight 20 cent stamps. Three of the six sides were covered in stamps.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's actually not that all that surprising as your supplier probably also deals in stamp supplies. Which means they have access to discount postage, some old sheets are discounted as much as 25% off of face, which doesn't matter to USPS as the full FV is counted towards the postage. I've received boxes covered in all six sides with old stamps, leaving just enough room for an address label.
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 United States
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had not thought of that, but this supplier doesn't sell stamps online |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If you routinely sell coins or anything that can fit inside a USPS box in high volumes, discount postage is one way to go, although the minimum required is usually $1,000 FV before any substantial discounting will occur. The discounts are greater on lower FV stamps such as the 3c and 4c commemoratives of 50s and 60s, because the user has to use more stamps than the 15c and 20c which are the current favored discount postage. I got numerous parcels this way, the most memorable being a box that was covered with a half sheet of General Pulaski, a 2c red from 1930!
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United States
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i think I would laugh if I saw a box covered in stamps. lol.
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Australia
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I have received a number of parcels covered in stamps(mainly from coin/stamp dealers) and really enjoy looking through the mainly older stamps. Naturally being a hoarder the stamps get saved along with the coins.
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United States
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 the lower right blank spot is where the address label was   other three sides are blank Edited by Fuzzy317
07/13/2011 07:05 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Looks like the supplier wants to get you started into stamp collecting as well.
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United States
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Looks like the supplier wants to get you started into stamp collecting as well.   |
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United States
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United States
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Three of the six sides were covered in stamps. I was going to ask for pictures, then I scroll down and see that you had already provided them. Nice.  Perhaps they wanted to see what interest you had in stamps, for purely academic purposes.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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That is really funny. At my local USPS place one of the people working there told me not to put on so many of those return lable stickers. They get caught in the machinery. Yet look at that pile of stamps. I can't see spending that much time putting all those on there anyway. Someone is mad a the postal service or as already noted someone is trying to start the stamp collecting stuff again.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I know I've used a chunk of my stamp collection to mail my bills, send small packages, whatnot. For a US collector, the 'value' of your stamp collection seemingly will never be worth more than face (this is most certianly true of post 60's stamps). so I decided to trim my collection back, focus on coins and use that extra postage for my mail. it worked out and hpefully someone got something that excited them to start a stamp collection
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Posted 07/13/2011 04:30 am
