I had a parcel to mail today and the total came to $23.90, so I overpaid by ten cents and put 2 complete sheets on the parcel, one inverted compared to the other, and had them carefully hand canceled at the window.
I'm primarily a stamp collector these days anyway, so I love these sheets... although the print and die cutting quality is craptacular.
<< <i>OK I went to the Canoga PO and they were out, zipp, nada, so I went to the Chatsworth PO and they had em, in fact since I got some the lady behind me HAD to get some! >>
You can get these directly from the USPS, including press sheets and first day cancellations.
(That's what I did, since I had to get this year's Civil War sheet anyway.) They're shipped in cellophane with cardboard backing, so all the sheets you order will arrive undamaged.
If you actually look at what the USPS offers, they sometimes have some pretty cool issues. 'Course, they'll never be worth anything. Sorta like collecting fifty state or America the Beautiful quarters...
<< <i>Uhhhh speaking of errors and printing some right side up...
A NYT article says 100 sheets are "error" sheets with the plane printed right side up.
And the article confirms intaglio printing. >>
Coin World Online has a story about the 100 "error" sheets deliberately produced, complete with a USPS mockup of the "error," and a good editorial begging the U.S. Mint to not do the same sort of gimmick.
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
I rarely collect "made for collectors" items of any type, and particularly avoid imitations of real items as I have seen them destroy many a collector hobby, if not completely then seriously harm interest and increase doubt and skepticism of the value of the real items.
With this item at face value there is no downside, but I thought to myself, ok if I buy it, I look at it once and put it away with other odds and ends, and that's twelve bucks essentially wasted.
<< <i>With this item at face value there is no downside, but I thought to myself, ok if I buy it, I look at it once and put it away with other odds and ends, and that's twelve bucks essentially wasted. >>
. No. Twelve bucks wasted is a bad lunch at Burger King that has you belching onion taste for two hours.
The Columbian series from 1993 is top notch. I started "collecting" these specialties buying a few 1947 CIPEX sheets with the reprinted 1847 first issues imperforate in a different color. They were (are) cheap enough for occasional postal use. Stamps ARE Cool. Confederate Stamps are Cool too, and much cheaper than you'd think.
<< <i>Among stamp collectors, the real rarity will be one or more of these, used for actual postage requirements (shipping something heavy), canceled cleanly and keeping the stamp, postal wrap and cancel all intact -- and not something philatelic in origin (just sending them on a normal envelope to have them in a "used" state.)
I think they're neat, and if you "really" wanted something scarce you could use as described above, to send to a friend (and arrange to have the used mailing wrappers returned to you.) >>
I'm using them for international postage...is $2.05, I'm using this one and one or two low value stamps from as far back as the 1930's.
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<< <i>Hey, check them carefully. Maybe they will goof on a few and print the Jenny bi-plane right side up!
Actually, that is the plan....
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
I'm primarily a stamp collector these days anyway, so I love these sheets... although the print and die cutting quality is craptacular.
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U.S. Revenue Stamps
When I was 5, I was a cricket collector,believe it or not.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Today I overnighted a box and put 20 of these on the box.
<< <i>OK I went to the Canoga PO and they were out, zipp, nada, so I went to the Chatsworth PO and they
had em, in fact since I got some the lady behind me HAD to get some! >>
You can get these directly from the USPS, including press sheets and first day cancellations.
(That's what I did, since I had to get this year's Civil War sheet anyway.) They're shipped in cellophane with cardboard backing, so all the sheets you order will arrive undamaged.
If you actually look at what the USPS offers, they sometimes have some pretty cool issues. 'Course, they'll never be worth anything. Sorta like collecting fifty state or America the Beautiful quarters...
<< <i>Uhhhh speaking of errors and printing some right side up...
A NYT article says 100 sheets are "error" sheets with the plane printed right side up.
And the article confirms intaglio printing. >>
Coin World Online has a story about the 100 "error" sheets deliberately produced, complete with a USPS mockup of the "error," and a good editorial begging the U.S. Mint to not do the same sort of gimmick.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
With this item at face value there is no downside, but I thought to myself, ok if I buy it, I look at it once and put it away with other odds and ends, and that's twelve bucks essentially wasted.
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<< <i>With this item at face value there is no downside, but I thought to myself, ok if I buy it, I look at it once and put it away with other odds and ends, and that's twelve bucks essentially wasted. >>
. No. Twelve bucks wasted is a bad lunch at Burger King that has you belching onion taste for two hours.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
There were some very cool limited production sheets and a $200 collector pacgage available from the USPS.
<< <i>Among stamp collectors, the real rarity will be one or more of these, used for actual postage requirements (shipping something heavy), canceled cleanly and keeping the stamp, postal wrap and cancel all intact -- and not something philatelic in origin (just sending them on a normal envelope to have them in a "used" state.)
I think they're neat, and if you "really" wanted something scarce you could use as described above, to send to a friend (and arrange to have the used mailing wrappers returned to you.) >>
I'm using them for international postage...is $2.05, I'm using this one and one or two low value stamps from as far back as the 1930's.
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