keitha
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Post by keitha on Dec 31, 2020 13:28:03 GMT
yes I know a lot of people use email etc these days
but today second class Large letter is 88p tomorrow 96P, first class stamp goes from 76p to 85P, first class large goes from 1.15 to 1.29
I've got what I think I need for several months and think I've saved about 12%
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benaj
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Post by benaj on Dec 31, 2020 14:29:52 GMT
or sell the unused stamps next year and take the profits
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adrianc
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Post by adrianc on Dec 31, 2020 14:52:24 GMT
Apart from Xmas cards, I doubt I use half a dozen stamps a year.
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Jan 1, 2021 16:44:02 GMT
Covid is making me use more !
normally deliver a lot of my Christmas and Birthday Cards, but the lockdowns have caused me to post a lot more.
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Post by mikeb on Jan 3, 2021 15:21:08 GMT
yes I know a lot of people use email etc these days but today second class Large letter is 88p tomorrow 96P, first class stamp goes from 76p to 85P, first class large goes from 1.15 to 1.29 I've got what I think I need for several months and think I've saved about 12% Cor, that's sneaky -- normally these things are mentioned on news/local radio ahead of time. Nothing this year (presumably took advantage of the news being Brexit/Trump/Covid ...)
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Post by moonraker on Jan 3, 2021 17:00:46 GMT
I did mention it here (obliquely) several weeks ago when, at my second attempt, I reckoned that the profit would be 11.8%.
I didn't fancy venturing out to buy a pack of cards, nor did I want to buy a number of singles at high prices for not very much, so I used up a few left-overs from the previous Christmas and sent emails to other recipients.
It is possible to buy current stamps at huge discounts on-line - I've just noted 99 first-class stamps with a face value of £85 going for £25.99.
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adrianc
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Post by adrianc on Jan 3, 2021 19:39:37 GMT
It is possible to buy current stamps at huge discounts on-line - I've just noted 99 first-class stamps with a face value of £85 going for £25.99.
That has to be a scam of some kind.
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littleoldlady
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Post by littleoldlady on Jan 4, 2021 8:58:11 GMT
It is possible to buy current stamps at huge discounts on-line - I've just noted 99 first-class stamps with a face value of £85 going for £25.99.
That has to be a scam of some kind. Possibly stamps that have been used but not franked . I think it might be illegal to use them again but it might not be illegal to sell them - to "collectors" of course.
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Post by moonraker on Jan 4, 2021 12:42:45 GMT
Cut-price stamps are being sold by reputable vendors on eBay and elsewhere.
No, I don't understand how they do it, though I do know of sheets of not-so-recent "QIIE GB" stamps being sold at under face value for postage. They've usually been bought as investments, though why anyone nowadays should think they would be, I don't know.
Back in 1966 England won the football World Cup and the Post Office produced a 4d "England Winners 1966" stamp. There was panic buying. The main post office in Sidmouth would only sell me around a dozen, so I dashed down to a sub-post office where I was allowed to buy a complete sheet.
Nowadays I can't sell a single copy for 10p.
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Post by adrianc on Jan 4, 2021 18:20:39 GMT
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Post by moonraker on Jan 13, 2021 16:43:37 GMT
Quite a bit of media coverage today about postal "black spots" where Covid has caused delays with mail deliveries. Sometimes I use several "old" postage stamps to make up second-class postage which fools the electronic sorting to send it first-class. Thus it was yesterday when I posted a letter to an address three hundred miles away. Stated collection time on the box was 1700, it had arrived by 1500 today.
(By "old" I do NOT mean stamps that have already been used but mint stamps dating back over the decades. Many are from my collection and some, of 12p or so face value, would have paid for a first-class service when first issued.)
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Post by Greenwood2 on Jan 13, 2021 17:01:05 GMT
Some comments that some of the brand new stamps are forgeries, I've never bought any so haven't had a good look at any of them. Unfranked are usually ones that didn't get heavily franked and may have been cleaned if necessary, to look more or less new, possibly a bit risky to buy. The new (well not very new now) self adhesive stamps are really difficult to get off paper (I have tried for ones I wanted for a collection) I don't know how they do it in bulk! You can usually buy 'proper' books of stamps in COSTCO at a discount, but in something like a dozen books. I guess some people buy these and sell on for a small profit. It's been a while since I've gone into COSTCO and I don't remember what the margin was, but I did buy a job lot a few years ago when I needed a lot of stamps for business.
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Post by adrianc on Jan 13, 2021 17:52:04 GMT
The new (well not very new now) self adhesive stamps are really difficult to get off paper (I have tried for ones I wanted for a collection) You ain't wrong! We had a couple of 2nd class that had somehow got a bit cosy together in the little booklet - after too many minutes trying to pick them apart, I gave up and just binned what was left of them.
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Post by df on Jan 13, 2021 19:35:32 GMT
I still have one left out of the bucket of 12 bought about 6 years ago. I've recently bought 12 more - they'll probably last until the end of this decade.
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Post by df on Jan 13, 2021 19:50:30 GMT
It is possible to buy current stamps at huge discounts on-line - I've just noted 99 first-class stamps with a face value of £85 going for £25.99.
That has to be a scam of some kind. I guess it's not too difficult to take a pic, edit and print them out 
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