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Post by vertolive on Feb 14, 2022 3:59:22 GMT
I have a UV light of the correct wavelength coming from Amazon. Failing that, I’ll try the post office. Will keep everyone here “posted”.
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Post by purplemaze on Feb 24, 2022 6:20:48 GMT
I have a UV light of the correct wavelength coming from Amazon. Failing that, I’ll try the post office. Will keep everyone here “posted”. I’m curious how it turned out. Once I bought forever stamps from eBay, with discount price. Later I got worried if they were legit. I took them to the post office, and asked them if they can tell me if they were real. The lady took them to the back office, and came back and said they were real so I could use them. I don’t know how they verified the authenticity. Maybe they had a UV light.
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Post by purplemaze on Feb 24, 2022 6:23:50 GMT
I ordered Title IX, Mountain Flora, Global African Daisy for me, sunflowers, and Message Monster for my daughter.
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Post by vertolive on Feb 24, 2022 20:11:30 GMT
I have a UV light of the correct wavelength coming from Amazon. Failing that, I’ll try the post office. Will keep everyone here “posted”. I’m curious how it turned out. Once I bought forever stamps from eBay, with discount price. Later I got worried if they were legit. I took them to the post office, and asked them if they can tell me if they were real. The lady took them to the back office, and came back and said they were real so I could use them. I don’t know how they verified the authenticity. Maybe they had a UV light. Good to know. The light I bought was supposedly the correct wavelength but neither my post office stamps nor my questionable stamps “glowed”. I sent the light back but haven’t gotten to my local post office yet (it’s quite far away)
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Post by katiel on Feb 25, 2022 1:08:38 GMT
Okay, so just running this by everyone to make sure I’m not crazy. I really like the new Sunflower Bouquet stamp (2 ounce) and matching Tulip stamps (1 ounce). If I use one of each (78 cents + 58 cents), I could put them on an envelope to mail an international letter, right? That would be $1.36 (and international postage is $1.30). There’s no problem with using a 2-ounce stamp as international postage, right?
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Post by allanorn on Feb 25, 2022 1:42:42 GMT
Okay, so just running this by everyone to make sure I’m not crazy. I really like the new Sunflower Bouquet stamp (2 ounce) and matching Tulip stamps (1 ounce). If I use one of each (78 cents + 58 cents), I could put them on an envelope to mail an international letter, right? That would be $1.36 (and international postage is $1.30). There’s no problem with using a 2-ounce stamp as international postage, right? Should be fine.
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Post by katiel on Feb 25, 2022 13:26:16 GMT
Okay, so just running this by everyone to make sure I’m not crazy. I really like the new Sunflower Bouquet stamp (2 ounce) and matching Tulip stamps (1 ounce). If I use one of each (78 cents + 58 cents), I could put them on an envelope to mail an international letter, right? That would be $1.36 (and international postage is $1.30). There’s no problem with using a 2-ounce stamp as international postage, right? Should be fine. Awesome, that’s what I thought, but just wanted to make sure it wasn’t faulty logic on my part. I ordered a sheet of each of these. Plus some African Daisy international ones, and the mountain floral ones. 🙂
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Post by davidv on Feb 25, 2022 13:47:46 GMT
Sadly all the fun Canadian stamps seem to be domestic permanent value (other than a few Christmas stamps). You can buy stamps at Costco in a giant roll cheaper than you can at the post office, but they only come in one series. So those are the stamps I use for Canadian letters (of which I write relatively few).
To avoid using only very boring stamps, I buy low value definitives and mix up the silly stamp denominations. My go to combo for US letters is $1 + $0.22 + $0.08
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Post by vertolive on Feb 26, 2022 19:43:56 GMT
Awesome, that’s what I thought, but just wanted to make sure it wasn’t faulty logic on my part. I ordered a sheet of each of these. Plus some African Daisy international ones, and the mountain floral ones. 🙂 Yep. I just put a Year of the Ox, an Otter, and a Sea Shell (postcard) stamp on a letter bound to the UK. I like to show pen pals a little variety sometimes.
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Post by Rouge on Mar 19, 2022 15:16:41 GMT
I have bought two kinds of stamps, recently, and I LOVE them. Beware of some very long explanations The first one is depicting a regional train on the rails, crossing a countryside landscape. It is untitled : "Voyage en TER", and this last word is the acronym for "Train Express Regional." It may not sound like a big thing, but these train lines usually link big regional cities to others. It may be useful for when, as an example, you live somewhere in the Normand countryside, but need to go to Caen or Rouen, either to go to the Court, or maybe the rectorate, etc. Of course, people have cars, but who would complain about just sitting and watching the landscape before you get where you need to get ? The second one is a bit particular. It celebrates the 100 years of the official creation of the Département du Territoire de Belfort. In 1870 and 1871, France and Prussia fought a tremendous war, and France lost it. The German Empire absorbed, with other lands, most of the Département du Haut-Rhin, except for a territory around the city of Belfort. France thought it would get back the whole Alsace and Lorraine's lost lands, sooner or later, and didn't give this territory to any other département. Instead, it was made its own administrative division. In 1918, France got back the lost teritories, but Alsace and the Territory of Belfort had become a lot different. If you live in the USA : imagine what if your state had become completely Mexican for almost 50 years : there is a lot of money to bet that its culture and people wouldn't be the same as before. This is why, I guess, as the Territoire of Belfort had made its own way for one complete generation of the time, it was decided to make it its own Département in 1922. The Lion statue depicted in the picture comemorates the resistance of the city to Germany.
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Post by purplemaze on Jul 6, 2022 5:34:20 GMT
Just got two sheets of George Morrison, and a sheet of $2 Floral Geometry since I sometimes use $2 stamps for heavier international letters. I will definitely order National Marine Sanctuaries. Overall I’m not buying stamps as much as last year. I still have lots unused in my stash. Some are from years ago that I saved. I am starting to use one of my favorite, Delicioso just now.
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Post by Rouge on Mar 23, 2023 11:07:41 GMT
Well, I guess most of my penpals here have already received my February letters, so I can show you these beauties : For this February, I mostly used the pink ones on my letters, and completed it with old stamps to make it up to the good rate. I've already spotted some other stamps I want to use in April.
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Post by Rouge on Aug 6, 2023 14:24:49 GMT
I've recently been to Belgium and, to post some of my letters, I bought this sheet of stamps : (https://eshop.bpost.be/fr/products/10-ans-de-regne-de-sm-le-roi-timbres-non-prior-belgique) It celebrates the ten years of the reign of the current King of the Belgians (His Majesty Philippe of Belgium) There are great chances I buy other belgian samps designs in the next weeks
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Post by Mia on Aug 10, 2023 19:15:28 GMT
A load of stamps of Discworld characters issued today by Royal Mail. Rincewind, the wizzard, has already appeared on a Royal Mail stamp a few years back, and is once again printed on gummed paper!
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