World used stamps -- good place to give them away to

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:09:56 +1200, "Dave Joll"
wrote:

Tracy Barber wrote

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:26:05 GMT, "mBird" wrote:

I had a load of world stamps that are all used, off paper, and cleaned up
(resoaked to make sure not musty). I have about the amount that would fit
in
a shoe box (so a good size since all off paper). I'm wondering how I
could
find a good place to contribute these. I know many people would take
them
but I'm hoping to find someone needy who may otherwise not be able to get
stamps easilly but would really like them (Uraguay used to have a program
Philatelic Friend years ago but I just emailed them and turns out they no
longer have the program)

If you had a valid e-mail address, I'd send you an e-mail. If you're
serious about contributing some stamps, e-mail me instead. I have
been donating stamps for 3 years and have many different places to
send to as well as newbies.

I'll post in support of Tracy. I sent him a large stack of
modern used NZ letter rate definitives recently for his
stamp donation programme (have they arrived yet?).
Convenient way to get rid of stamps that are dirt common
here but not common overseas... let Tracy do all the hard
work.

Hey - I resemble that!

It's actually not hard, but sometimes at the 90th stamp of a 50 packet
table load, it gets a wee bit sloooooooowwww..... then the packaging
of them encourages me to finish faster! hehehehehehe...

Yes, they have arrived a long time ago. Thanks!

Tracy Barber

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:10:50 GMT, "mBird" wrote:

Hi --
What is "troll"? (I guess it is common expresion because I looked in
GoogleGroups but I never saw or could discern a definition??? -- I am
guesing it is someone looking to harvest emails to then future solicite them
for selling?)
Please excuse the off topic -- I was just wondering for my own
net-vocabulary

Not off-topic on this post. It's very easy for someone to come here
and offer stamps like you have and then not show up later, disappear
and of course not have any stamps to give away to newbies.

We call people like that trolls.

It strikes worse on that topic because it's not a passing joke / etc.
but something that can technically suck us into and then get wrapped
up with the topic.

Many of us here like to pass stamps on to others to keep the hobby
going - no matter how little or how much you have to donate. Some
people can take that and twist it around for their sick humor.

Since you've come back a few times, I wouldn't consider you a troll.
=== :^) Just another good soul looking to help out the hobby.

Tracy Barber

Follow up ...

Thanks for all the ideas on where to send used world stamps.

In one of the posts DROGER Jean-Paul mentioned APS and that gave me an idea:
I see looking on the web that there's an APS chapter in this area (and they
have a web site that has their email so easy to contact). So I think I'll
ask them to distribute them.

Cheers!