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The New Postage Stamps
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In my local Post Office today I asked for a book of 12 second class stamps and was told " only books of 8 available" They are the new ones with the QR code that we'll all have to use from next year - green and truly ugly. And to think of all the beautiful British stamps I still have in my two boyhood stamp albums - surely they could have come up with a more elegant solution.
What was wrong with the strip embedded in the old blue ones?
What was wrong with the strip embedded in the old blue ones?
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Why don't you use up the stamps in your collection, from decimalisation onwards, until next January. I used to collect stamps and found after a long time, I was just collecting the commemorative ones (and new definitive ones) out of habit so I decided to stop when we got to 2000. A couple of years ago we had someone come and value the collection and albums of First Day Covers and he offered me £30 which I turned down. The face value of these mint stamps must be in the hundreds and I have been using them ever since. I'm a bit miffed that I won't be able to do this after January.
I volunteer in an Oxfam book and Music shop, we sell used stamps, postcards and first day covers.
Initially, I thought that the contents of old stamp albums and collections of first-day covers would make lots of money. But only very rare items are of any worth. We sell the stamps by weight and postcards and first-day covers have to be 'special' to be worth anything.
Initially, I thought that the contents of old stamp albums and collections of first-day covers would make lots of money. But only very rare items are of any worth. We sell the stamps by weight and postcards and first-day covers have to be 'special' to be worth anything.
