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Post by motsamicaux on Feb 24, 2020 23:37:27 GMT
I picked up some of the newly released USPS Wild Orchids stamps today. They're nice! But...
...I wish they could have found a tenth different orchid to issue a stamp for instead of issuing two different stamps for Triphora trianthophoros.
If anyone's interested, the orchids on the back of the stamp booklet are:
Top row, left to right: Triphora trianthophoros, Cypripedium californicum, Hexalectris spicata, Cypripedium reginae, Spiranthes odorata, and Triphora trianthophoros (repeat of first stamp in row)
Bottom row, left to right: Platanthera leucophaea, Triphora trianthophoros (different view of Triphora trianthophoros than that in top row), Platanthera grandiflora, Cyrtopodium polyphyllum, Calopogon tuberosus, and Platanthera leucophaea (repeat of first stamp in row)
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Post by distractedmom on Feb 25, 2020 3:20:08 GMT
Now I’m intrigued. Maybe I’ll swing by the post office tomorrow.
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Post by oregonclaire on Feb 25, 2020 5:27:37 GMT
*sigh* I really want these, but the easiest post office for me to get to always has terrible selection and the surliest clerk working the front. I'm getting pretty tired of the frog stamps though... might have to make the trek to a different P.O. and just stock up.
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Post by PhotoJim on Feb 25, 2020 14:59:08 GMT
*sigh* I really want these, but the easiest post office for me to get to always has terrible selection and the surliest clerk working the front. I'm getting pretty tired of the frog stamps though... might have to make the trek to a different P.O. and just stock up. Why not order them by mail? You can get them from the USPS' philatelic division.
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Post by oregonclaire on Feb 25, 2020 18:07:36 GMT
*sigh* I really want these, but the easiest post office for me to get to always has terrible selection and the surliest clerk working the front. I'm getting pretty tired of the frog stamps though... might have to make the trek to a different P.O. and just stock up. Why not order them by mail? You can get them from the USPS' philatelic division. Eh, I hate paying shipping when I could rearrange my errands to take me nearby to another Post Office. It's just more effort vs. the post office that's on the way to and from my kids' preschool.
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Post by katiel on Feb 26, 2020 0:10:05 GMT
My post office’s shipment of these got delayed, so I have to wait until Friday to get them. ☹️ They looked sort of pretty from the picture, though... looking forward to seeing them in real life.
Edit: and I’m too cheap to order online, too. I’ll just wait til they come in. 😂
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Post by motsamicaux on Feb 26, 2020 14:47:24 GMT
My post office’s shipment of these got delayed, so I have to wait until Friday to get them. ☹️ They looked sort of pretty from the picture, though... looking forward to seeing them in real life. Edit: and I’m too cheap to order online, too. I’ll just wait til they come in. 😂 It wasn't too long ago that USPS didn't charge shipping for stamps ordered online. But, they need the money. BTW, the stamps they ship are very well packaged.
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Post by radellaf on Feb 29, 2020 6:29:46 GMT
The convenience and complete selection seems well worth the cost of about one international stamp for shipping when I'm ordering $40+ worth. Usually two sheets of 20 of the one that interested me plus two other designs, and maybe some 5 (or now 10c) for the now $1.20 international rate. I could save that by buying at the grocery store, but they only have something boring like flags. I could go to the post office 6 miles away, but they'd have one or maybe two of the designs I'd like to get. Maybe if I actually ever drove right by the PO on the way to anything, I'd stop in, but they're not in the most convenient locations around here and there always seems to be a line.
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Post by Lupine on Mar 18, 2020 16:43:42 GMT
Oh my gosh. I'm going to faint. I can't believe I found some people who care as much as I do about . . . stamps. I mean, I know there are serious collectors, but just regular folk who pour over the USPS magazine and order pretty stamps! I do not know, or have ever known anyone, or known of any friend who knew another person who cared about which stamp they used. I'm pretty happy right now just to read this thread. Why, why, why is there only ONE choice for US domestic postcard stamps! It kills me to have to use those freakin' cartoon fish. Have I missed something? I send postcards weekly to my Mom at her retirement community even though I see her every week and talk to her every day. I just want her to get some mail. I could string together fruit, but that takes up too much room on a post card.
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Post by PhotoJim on Mar 18, 2020 17:50:00 GMT
I only get Canada Post's postage stamp catalogue, but I pore over it every month, too. I don't always use commemorative stamps (I get rolls of some definitives for convenience) but I like using real stamps on letters. (I'm using up some boring flag stamps on mail I send from the US, but I'll do better eventually. Not a short-term issue because the border is closing for awhile and I won't be down there for who knows how long.)
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Post by mailartist on Mar 18, 2020 19:07:50 GMT
Oh my gosh. I'm going to faint. I can't believe I found some people who care as much as I do about . . . stamps. I mean, I know there are serious collectors, but just regular folk who pour over the USPS magazine and order pretty stamps! I do not know, or have ever known anyone, or known of any friend who knew another person who cared about which stamp they used. I'm pretty happy right now just to read this thread. Why, why, why is there only ONE choice for US domestic postcard stamps! It kills me to have to use those freakin' cartoon fish. Have I missed something? I send postcards weekly to my Mom at her retirement community even though I see her every week and talk to her every day. I just want her to get some mail. I could string together fruit, but that takes up too much room on a post card. Try looking online for "vintage" postage stamps (mint, not hinged). There are usually folks selling lots of unused yet plebeian stamps (some are even the old lick-and-stick variety!), but you're looking for those that sell for less than the "printed" price on the stamps. (So, not the folks who want to sell 10 three-cent stamps for $20.) I know that some members of the forum do this quite a bit.
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Post by radellaf on Mar 18, 2020 22:17:28 GMT
Oh my gosh. I'm going to faint. I can't believe I found some people who care as much as I do about . . . stamps. I mean, I know there are serious collectors, but just regular folk who pour... IDK if I care _as much_ as you do, and I don't _pour_ over the website, but I have inadvertently become a stamp collector since "ooh pretty!" has led to my purchases exceeding my posting. I don't even wanna add up all I've got. Fortunately, it's 90% 1st class forever, so it'll be good... for a long time. I have shells and shore birds for postcards, hadn't seen the reef. I guess they come out with a new design reasonably often. The new uncle sam additional ounce is sorta ugly compared to the penguins they used to have. I'll keep those for the next rate increase, since right now things are in the happy state that two forevers plus pears (or two grapes) covers international. I think I got some Walt Whitman 85c, too, so...um, one of those plus postcard is $1.20, I could use that.
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Post by oregonclaire on Mar 24, 2020 16:39:00 GMT
Oh my gosh. I'm going to faint. I can't believe I found some people who care as much as I do about . . . stamps. I mean, I know there are serious collectors, but just regular folk who pour over the USPS magazine and order pretty stamps! I do not know, or have ever known anyone, or known of any friend who knew another person who cared about which stamp they used. I'm pretty happy right now just to read this thread. Why, why, why is there only ONE choice for US domestic postcard stamps! It kills me to have to use those freakin' cartoon fish. Have I missed something? I send postcards weekly to my Mom at her retirement community even though I see her every week and talk to her every day. I just want her to get some mail. I could string together fruit, but that takes up too much room on a post card. Try looking online for "vintage" postage stamps (mint, not hinged). There are usually folks selling lots of unused yet plebeian stamps (some are even the old lick-and-stick variety!), but you're looking for those that sell for less than the "printed" price on the stamps. (So, not the folks who want to sell 10 three-cent stamps for $20.) I know that some members of the forum do this quite a bit. This! There are a couple of Etsy sellers who offer vintage postage below face value, and postcard postage in particular (two or three stamps adding up to 35c). I think you can find them on eBay as well. Thanks to the virus-that-shall-not-be-named, I ordered my next batch of Forever stamps from the USPS so I could avoid the post office. I ordered the Orchids and one of the old Celebration Boutonniere stamps. I usually only use Forever stamps on international mail, combining two of them with a vintage 10c stamp. I thought the flowers would look nice together
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