USPS stamp repurchase

An eBay listing states that the Post Office will buy back ANY unused US
stamps, regardless of issue date.

Is this true???

TIA
Jerry

including precancels?
pj



jerry wrote:

An eBay listing states that the Post Office will buy back ANY unused US
stamps, regardless of issue date.

Is this true???

TIA
Jerry

jerry wrote:
An eBay listing states that the Post Office will buy back ANY unused US
stamps, regardless of issue date.

Is this true???

TIA
Jerry

I know that under certain conditions USPS will buy back postage stamps.
My knowledger of buy back is limited to bulk mailers that buy large
quanities of stamps.
These users have stamps damaged by the affixing machines or otherwise
gamaged. These are bought back but must be stuck on a sheet of paper,
ten rows of ten stamps.
If the buy back was for all stamps there are many dealers that would
sell their hordes of stamps that they now sell for below face.

Ralphael, the OLD one

Even if they did, I suspect that they would only buy
back those still valid for postage.

Also, if that were the case, why do we have such
a great business in discounted postage?

Blair

Hi Jerry,

Take a look at the US Domestic Mail Manual at

http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/604.htm#wp1092682

Section 10 may answer your question.

Jerry B

On 13 Sep 2005 19:32:24 -0700, jerry wrote:
An eBay listing states that the Post Office will buy back ANY unused US
stamps, regardless of issue date.

Hard to say, but if you could use them for postage, why would that
matter? If someone is selling unused stamps for less than face value,
well, you have to wonder why _they_ don't just use them.

"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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On 13 Sep 2005 19:32:24 -0700, jerry wrote:
An eBay listing states that the Post Office will buy back ANY unused US
stamps, regardless of issue date.

Hard to say, but if you could use them for postage, why would that
matter? If someone is selling unused stamps for less than face value,
well, you have to wonder why _they_ don't just use them.

Maybe because they have too many...

I can imagine dealers (or collectors) who buy bigger collections of which 90
per cent represent for them just postage.

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Victor Manta

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On 13 Sep 2005 19:32:24 -0700, jerry wrote:
An eBay listing states that the Post Office will buy back ANY unused US
stamps, regardless of issue date.

Hard to say, but if you could use them for postage, why would that
matter? If someone is selling unused stamps for less than face value,
well, you have to wonder why _they_ don't just use them.


Many dealers buy sheets of stamps to salvage interesting parts, such as
corner blocks, etc. The rest they dispose of at a discount, since they may
exceed by far their needs for postage.

Tony



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Thanks for all the input. It didn't make sense to me either.

Dave Hinz wrote:
On 13 Sep 2005 19:32:24 -0700, jerry wrote:

An eBay listing states that the Post Office will buy back ANY unused US
stamps, regardless of issue date.


Hard to say, but if you could use them for postage, why would that
matter? If someone is selling unused stamps for less than face value,
well, you have to wonder why _they_ don't just use them.

In many cases it's because 12 three-cent stamps plus a penny stamp just
won't fit on the envelope.

Looking at the original poster's eBay source and Section 10 of the USPS
manual, you can see that ANY should be replaced by SOME or VERY FEW.

Bill

Bill