Post here your nice used stamps received on incoming parcels

skilo54 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 17, 2010 08:35:35 am

PeterS wrote:

Skilo, I presume you are paying for the postage? Are you paying their discounted rate? Or are thye keeping the 10% savings themselves?

Unfortunately, about the only thing you can do is tell them you won't be dealing with them anymore and that you cannot leave positive feedback in the circumstances.

Thanks for the advice PeterS,

I will pretty much use your wording in my reply to him this evening. I have thought about this all day at work and really wish the guy didn't go into detail about how he used stamps before, used to collect, understands etc..

A bunch of smoke being blown you-know-where in my opinion, sure the intent was too reply in a polite, kind manner, and I do appreciate it, but come on, give me a break! He easily could have handed My money I paid for postage to one of his staff or whatever, and got them to pick up some stamps on their way to the Crackerbarrel for lunch

Anyways, just my take on the whole scenario, I am out of luck and won't be dealing with these folks again

Thanks for your time,

Skilo54

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Thu Jun 17, 2010 16:50:44 pm

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Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Thu Jun 17, 2010 16:56:41 pm

The parcel pieces shown above are not mine from incoming parcels, they are just bits that I own. Some nice stuff.

The scanner cut off some of the perfs which is a shame.

makielb · **Posted:** Fri Jun 18, 2010 00:53:38 am

A recent arrival from Israel - almost all of my mail from there is interesting. Cropping to the right is the result of my scanner, all of the stamps are intact.

librarianc · **Posted:** Fri Jun 18, 2010 01:28:16 am

makielb wrote:

Cropping to the right is the result of my scanner, all of the stamps are intact.

In light of your signature line.........glad you clarified that!! :lol:

tooler · **Posted:** Fri Jun 18, 2010 05:59:16 am

Package from lakatoi lover, 9 days from Australia.

CHzug1291 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 18, 2010 20:06:38 pm

Thank's for plastic envelopes????? :lol:

Obviously this system works 99% here at home............but beware of the thief's!..

or don't make stupid mistakes as I did :oops:

Since 2002 i am getting from a German machine distributor twice a year a nice envelope with all the postage stamps, they are getting in there mail.
It is always the same lady, who mails the goodies and so I decided in November 2009, to send for her little daughter a present for the stamps received

An Australian made Koala, a few t-shirts and a pot of Vegemite, all went into the box.

On a white A4 page I wrote the address and bought for $ 129.00 $ stamps in the PO.
1 block of 6 20.00$ 1x 5.00 $ and 2x 4.00, the stamps where nicely canceled and the page with address and stamps inserted into an A4 plastic envelope!

I never got any reaction or "thank you" from the lady in Germany

1 year passed, and the stamps from over there still arrived, so I asked the lady with an e-mail, if she received the parcel somewhere last year....... she never did! :shock:

This year a few days before Easter I received a parcel.......................return to sender...........No address.........

The sheet with the stamps and the adress have been taken out of the plastic envelope and therefore that lady never got the gift and I never got the stamps!

I did send the parcel after Easter this year, but I had to change the t-shirts to bigger sizes! :lol:

Beware of the German posties!!!!!

Cheers

Peter

lakatoi lover · **Posted:** Fri Jun 18, 2010 20:57:15 pm

tooler101 wrote:

Package from lakatoi lover, 9 days from Australia.

Glad you liked the franking!

Cheers

Bill

Rozzie · **Posted:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 16:58:27 pm

Perhaps it's cheating since this is not an incoming parcel. I'm sending this one out to Canada on Monday. Perhaps it would better fit in the busy cover thread!

Catweazle · **Posted:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 18:09:04 pm

I purchased some comic books from a chap in France recently. Silly me, however - I should have told him that I collect stamps and to get him to put nice stamps on the parcel. But I didn't, so I received my books with those darn stick-on-parcel-labels instead of â‚¬10.50 worth of French stamps! :cry:

Global Administrator · **Posted:** Sun Jun 27, 2010 18:16:38 pm

Well I'd rather have got a coule of MACHINS than this utter garbage below a very WELL known and senior member of this board used this week to me, AND charged me the 8 quid postage for! :twisted:

Beyond belief.

My email to him re shipping said -

$12 Reg'd postage sounds OK .. especially If you might add a few vertical pairs of these £1 for me on packet - do not need margins or 1st .. you can use those locally.

Every dealer in the UK should buy 50 of these to use on mail and Regd.

Best design for a decade.

Why on EARTH can't folks use 4 pairs of these superb £1 stamps, than this useless garbage????? :twisted:

Especially when they charge **ME** for the shipping. :roll:

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Mon Jun 28, 2010 02:00:22 am

skilo54 wrote:

[color=#0000FF]I just have this one I just sent to someone in Hong Kong yesterday. It has some real nice High Value Canadian stamps on it, along with some International Year of the Tiger strips on it.

Oh I didn't know you were sending me a parcel. :lol:

I have an image of a parcel I mailed myself last week, just need to get an adapter to transfer the image from my mobile.

lakatoi lover · **Posted:** Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:39:38 pm

Here's a beauty that arrived on a parcel from the USA today.

Total face value US$57.60.

Cheers

Bill

makielb · **Posted:** Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:45:23 pm

I cross the Mackinac Bridge ($4.90 stamp) several times a month headed to and from our cabin in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan - If you want to part with this item let me know - I'd love a postally used copy.

pandadog28 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 28, 2010 12:53:00 pm

I got two parcels from the UK today, both from members here, both with a nice mix of stamps, both UNcancelled. :twisted:

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Mon Jun 28, 2010 13:06:30 pm

pandadog28 wrote:

I got two parcels from the UK today, both from members here, both with a nice mix of stamps, both UNcancelled. :twisted:

Same here actually, except my two parcels arrived last week uncancelled and they weren't from members here. :roll:

lakatoi lover · **Posted:** Mon Jun 28, 2010 13:32:05 pm

Tassie_Stamps wrote:

pandadog28 wrote:

I got two parcels from the UK today, both from members here, both with a nice mix of stamps, both UNcancelled. :twisted:

Same here actually, except my two parcels arrived last week uncancelled and they weren't from members here. :roll:

Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence from the UK.

I would get guess that every second letter I get from the UK doesn't have any cancellations.

Cheers

Bill

tooler · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 06:01:19 am

How do you like this postage to the USA, all the way from Castlecrag

Thanks Glen.

Rozzie · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 17:14:18 pm

I received a large box that was very literally covered with stamps due to a nice seller on eBay. (I'll have to dig out my digital camera. I can't make myself flatten the box & it won't fit on my scanner. :lol:

)

Unfortunately, some meth head postal employee couldn't be bothered to properly cancel the stamps and took a big black magic marker to them all. Grrrr! We're talking a full sheet of GORGEOUS wildlife stamps, all 25 cents each, then enough 10 cent stamps (in sheets and blocks) to bring the total to nearly $30 in postage. All with a wide magic marker stripe through the center of each stamp. Sigh....

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 17:49:37 pm

pandadog28 wrote:

I got two parcels from the UK today, both from members here, both with a nice mix of stamps, both UNcancelled. :twisted:

When I was living in the uni dorm in Toronto about 12 years ago, I somewhat foolishly bought big boxes of kiloware from a large auction house in the UK (thus whilst everyone else was drinking at frat parties, I was soaking stamps :roll:

).

Both shipments came (by seamail of course, I panicked when I saw their first invoice which automatically quoted air) franked with large blocks of the Edinburgh Castle definitive. The desk porter was an older Scottish gent, and he commented to me "wow you get a lot of boxes from Scotland" (in fact the auction house is between Wales and London

).

However, being a large auction house in a small town, I guess they swamp the local post office, as both parcels arrived uncancelled. In subsequent purchases, I noticed their mail never seems to get a cancel. The stamps on the seamail parcels picked up some dirt and were grubby enough so that they at least looked used. :roll:

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 18:02:40 pm

I thought everyone knows Glen, they need to record his ID? :lol:

I bought a print in the Palace Museum shoppe in Taipei, and since it was packed flat for protection, it wouldn't fit in my suitcase and I had to mail it home to myself. Sandwiched inside a flattened cardboard box. I hit up the philatelic counter after closing time on Friday afternoon (thankfully the clerk was still there, as they were closed on weekends) and got a nice assortment of stamps for the parcel. When I brought the parcel back the next day for posting, I drove the clerk crazy, he tried 4 times to add up the postage to make sure it was correct, getting a different answer each time (3 times under, 1 time over), before waving his hand and letting it go through.

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 18:07:29 pm

The "ID Recorded" Orange coloured labels are pretty stupid in my opinion, as I know several PO's who don't use them at all and several PO's who give rolls of them out to customers to apply themselves, neither of these scenarios indicate anyones ID being recorded so they are a bit pointless IMHO. :lol:

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 18:25:39 pm

Tassie_Stamps wrote:

The "ID Recorded" Orange coloured labels are pretty stupid in my opinion, as I know several PO's who don't use them at all and several PO's who give rolls of them out to customers to apply themselves, neither of these scenarios indicate anyones ID being recorded so they are a bit pointless IMHO. :lol:

Along the lines of the policy in the USA in the wake of the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who mailed parcel bombs, where any mailpiece over 1 lb had to be handed in to a counter clerk, who was supposed to remember the face of every customer so that days later if someone got a nasty surprise in the mail, the clerk could give a description to an FBI sketch artist.

When there's dozens of customers passing through the door every day, even every hour, is the counter staff going to be able to connect every parcel to every face long after the transaction?

In the case of Oz then, maybe counter staff act in the spirit of the programme, if not following it to the letter, and hand out rolls of the stickers to the people they know well? If you are at the post office all the time, why wouldn't the clerk give you a roll of the stickers to apply them at home yourself? Saves time and less work for the staff. (But then in Glen's case they probably even have a canceller behind the desk with his name on it. :lol:

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pandadog28 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 29, 2010 18:29:55 pm

pandadog28 wrote:

A goodie from a member here.

I would love it if a member here could post a copy of this set from the above (the Redwoods) cover or maybe even a list of all the denominations, i would love to buy a set for a friends collection who would never be able to afford these.

revenuecollector · **Posted:** Fri Jul 02, 2010 14:35:30 pm

Three parcels I've gotten in the last month, all from the same UK eBay seller. VERY well done, in my opinion, especially the 3rd parcel, given that it's a HUGE-volume seller with over 60,000 feedback; in my experience it's the high-volume clearing houses that usually pay the least attention to these kinds of things.

Parcel 1.

Parcel 2 (it's a shame about the gouge at upper left).

Parcel 3 front and back. I've never seen so many used gutter pairs in one place! No less than ten DIFFERENT gutter pairs on this parcel.

tooler · **Posted:** Sat Jul 03, 2010 04:48:40 am

A new arrival today.

Flying Tiger · **Posted:** Tue Jul 06, 2010 09:54:24 am

From a stamp album I bought from Seven Seas several years ago.

ConnieB · **Posted:** Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:04:14 am

ConnieB · **Posted:** Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:05:12 am

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Tue Jul 06, 2010 19:04:23 pm

Flying Tiger wrote:

From a stamp album I bought from Seven Seas several years ago.

Very nice.

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Tue Jul 06, 2010 19:13:53 pm

ConnieB wrote:

I always think of the word 'squeamish' when I see 'Squamish'

. I'm sure it's a lovely place like most of BC and doesn't really evoke that feeling in potential visitors.

The design for the Vancouver Games' medals is a 'fail' I think...it looks like they've melted.

ConnieB · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 06:58:39 am

Today's mail was full of beauties:

ConnieB · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 07:00:43 am

I love getting packages from other stamp collectors. They know how to mail in style. Thanks, Ann!

brissypete · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 09:55:03 am

ConnieB wrote:

Today's mail was full of beauties:

WOW!

ConnieB · **Posted:** Wed Jul 07, 2010 13:26:45 pm

brissypete wrote:

ConnieB wrote:

Today's mail was full of beauties:

WOW!

I forgot to mention that Brian Moore sent this wonderful package. I'd buy from him again. He made the postage costs less painful. Thanks, Brian.

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 18:28:02 pm

I'm not really sure if these are 'nice used stamps', I know some people hate machins but they only cost me a couple of dollars postage (seller paid the majority of postage cost) and I was happy to not get a label.

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 18:35:23 pm

They must be self-adhesive? Otherwise there would be pairs/blocks there.

At least they're relatively higher face-values. I still miss the Castles. :cry:

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 18:39:55 pm

Yes, they are self adhesive.... I was told these stamps are the highest value that the particular PO stocked. :roll:

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 18:53:48 pm

Tassie_Stamps wrote:

Yes, they are self adhesive.... I was told these stamps are the highest value that the particular PO stocked. :roll:

I remember reading before that the UK PO had decided that higher-face stamps would only be available by philatelic mail order, that they wouldn't stock them in the POs, that way 'time would be saved by using a label instead of fiddling around making up the correct rate in stamps' (paraphrasing there). Of course collectors immediately jumped all over that, pointing out why bother issuing the stamps if they're not actually going to be available in POs for using.

Anyways, not a bad franking, gives you trading material if nothing else.

Allanswood · **Posted:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 15:22:41 pm

From a recent Auction box lot...

I just wish the box had reached $50.00 I could have had a full sheet of the $5 stamps :mrgreen:

Had I known I would have paid the extra few dollars to get it.

Tassie_Stamps · **Posted:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 17:25:41 pm

Tas Stamp Auctions? Nice!!!

GlenStephens · **Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2010 15:45:24 pm

USA current $4.95 and $18.30 Hi-Vals quite SUPERB used.

Got this superb used pair this week from member here - nolimitstamps - many thanks for taking this trouble!

The highest face value USA postage stamp EVER issued. EVER!

The USA changes these high values VERY fast -- the $17.50 "Old Faithful" seemed to have come and gone in a year, so who knows when these two may vanish?

Postal used for correct rate for correct Express Post use is a lovely piece. The 2 stamps are superb condition in every way - unusual for a heavy 10 lbs International use box useage. Lovely clear July 15, 2010 cds.

These are the £1 and £2 Roos of the USA .. and see what THEY are worth on piece -

http://www.glenstephens.com/snmay10.html

The pair absolutely superb used on neat parcel piece I got this week at my hotel in Banff Canada. Along with the new Jackson Pollock massive commem that Canada Post partly covered with a sticker.

An OBJECT lesson for all American readers on HOW to mail parcels "totally free" - these stamps so fine used are worth around face value to a collector.

Allanswood · **Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2010 16:43:37 pm

Found in a box of mixed world on paper that I won...

xanthorrea · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2010 00:59:50 am

That's something like the postage that a friend returned to me from the UK. It took me a bit to track down the stamps as one post office told me at the time that the $20 was withdrawn and refused to sell me some. Luckily however I was able to track some down at a local postal agency and use them on my heavy parcels to the UK. It was a pity the top one of the triplet sustained a little surface damage but then again how many of these can you stump up with?

Allanswood · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2010 01:12:11 am

Now thats a parcel! :mrgreen:

I think I would have been tempted just to up the lot to the full $200!

davo · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2010 18:30:21 pm

Up to last Dec I have been able to purchase $20.00 International stamps from the philatelic bureau in Melbourne. Have not tried this year as yet.


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