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Post by Mia on Oct 21, 2022 22:41:19 GMT
Where do you buy your stamps for use as postage?
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Post by Gary S on Oct 22, 2022 6:11:38 GMT
Ebay for the most part but occasionally buy in person at the post office if I need stamps for bills I'm paying via mail.
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Post by radellaf on Oct 22, 2022 18:23:10 GMT
Usually pre-order whatever the USPS has coming out, plus whatever else I've missed, or odd denominations (postcard, additional ounce, international)
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Post by DJW1066 on Oct 24, 2022 10:42:32 GMT
I buy almost all my stamps on Ebay. This saves over 20% over the post office, and makes my envelopes much more interesting.
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Post by penguy on Oct 26, 2022 16:16:09 GMT
I looked on eBay for unused US postage and found quite a few offerings. I noticed some offerings said ‘off paper’, what ever that means. I also found references to counterfeit stamps being offered on eBay. How can you determine if an offering is legitimate postage?
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Post by Mia on Oct 26, 2022 16:59:37 GMT
I looked on eBay for unused US postage and found quite a few offerings. I noticed some offerings said ‘off paper’, what ever that means. I also found references to counterfeit stamps being offered on eBay. How can you determine if an offering is legitimate postage? Off paper, to me, means they had been on paper, but have been soaked off, presumably unmarked by the postal system. I assume they have been postally used. Unused mint stamps should have the original gum/adhesive or if self-adhesive, still have the original backing paper (although there are some that will "glue" stamps onto this backing paper, making it hard to peel off - a certain online megastore has listings for these even some at more than "face value" and reading the reviews... clearly are not valid stamps).
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Post by Gary S on Oct 26, 2022 23:53:48 GMT
I looked on eBay for unused US postage and found quite a few offerings. I noticed some offerings said ‘off paper’, what ever that means. I also found references to counterfeit stamps being offered on eBay. How can you determine if an offering is legitimate postage? I agree with Mia that "off paper" are probably uncancelled but postally used stamps. I just buy older mint stamps and assume no one is bothering to fake old, lower value, gum-backed postage stamps. I have no way of confirming fake stamps myself so avoid the newer Forever stamps they sell on Ebay.
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