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Posted by Richard C. on 01/03/06 15:14
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"Bill Vermillion" <bv@wjv.com> wrote in message news:IsH7z0.15rI@wjv.com...
> In article <wetraprock-B485CB.00552030122005@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
> Walter Traprock <wetraprock@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Stan <srs666@despammed.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > The disc I received today from BB had an actual postage stamp on the
>>> > envelope. There was also a stamp on the return envelope! What's up
>>> > with that? Why the change from the pre printed postal permit? It's
>>> > certainly not the way to keep costs down!
>>>
>>> Perhaps they were able to buy a large quantity of stamps at a discount
>>> off
>>> face value from a company that was going out of business.
>
>>That sounds like stolen stamps; better report this to the police.
>
> Actually a late friend of mine used to buy huge lots of stamps that
> were originally bought by collectors - which sold so many they had
> no collectible value.
>
> He'd enter contests by sticking several 3 cent commerorative stamps
> from the WWII era on his entries - which he said upped his chances.
>
> He could buy those at below face value - as people would by sheets
> of those stamps to save - and find that they couldn't sell them
> even at face value - and didn't think to use them on their own
> mail.
>
> Bill
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You know about it, but Stan Brown (for some strange reason) denies the
possibility.
I can buy mint postage at 80% to 90% off of face value all day long from
hundreds of sources.
Many "collectors" got suckered in starting in the late 1940s thinking they
would get rich
buying stamps "to pay for their kids college". People STILL do this.
The stamps are a glut on the marked and are sold in bulk quantities in all
the trades.
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