I have found a few places online that are selling 100 Forever Stamps for around $32.00 I found another place selling them for $80, which is $20 over cost.

Has anyone purchased these stamps online?

Run the risk of counterfeit stamps.

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Originally posted by maxwayne:
I found another place selling them for $80, which is $20 over cost.

Those might be discontinued designs.

I paid a few extra dollars over cost to a reseller several years ago for some sheets of the Batman stamps, because I like Batman, and they haven't been offered by the Post Office since 2014.

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Originally posted by spunk639:
Run the risk of counterfeit stamps.

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Might also be legitimate USPS stamps, already used but not cancelled.

The USPS isn't cancelling all their first class mail for some reason. link to recent thread on stampcommunity.com

There is apparently a mini-business buying bulk used stamps sold to collectors and selling uncancelled ones off for illegal resale.

Maybe post an example link or two? Might be something on the site that would give some indication. For example, if they are un-gummed, sold singly versus on whole sheets/coils/panes, it may be the latter.

The whole 'forever' thing means that someone may well have bought sheets of useful stamps back when costs per stamp were low, so there are probably legitimate stamps out there initially bought by collectors but now inherited by non-collectors looking to liquidate. So there is potentially also some legitimate aftermarket as well, but you'd think that would price closer to today's postage value (60 cents!?!) rather than at 32 dollars for a hundred.

Are they 2018 flag stamps? If so, they are counterfeit. Amazon has a policy forbidding their sale, but they’re still sold all the time.

https://www.uspis.gov/news/sca...e/counterfeit-stamps

I smell scam.

I haven't purchased stamps since 2010.

And I have 3/4 of the stamps remaining, that I purchased then.

I use about 20 - 25 stamps per year.

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This! I have almost an entire roll of "forever" stamps that are at least 10 years old. I just never use them anymore...

Yep. I have a couple sheets of those stamps left, and I figure that'll be more than enough to take care of my letter mailing needs for the rest of my life. (And I'm not yet 40.)

In my copious junk mail there are plenty of stamped, self-addressed envelopes hoping I use them to donate to whatever cause bought my address.

So I don't need many stamps these days, but I do go through blank Avery labels.

Every once in a while I go through the junk mail pile and sift out the SASEs before recycling the rest. When I want to use one of the junk-mail-rescue SASEs, I put a mailing address on one of the blank labels, stick it over the junk-mail-address on the envelope, and out it goes.

What about the rain, sleet and snow and all that stuff? What about cursive? Not using stamps in un-American...LOL

In my work I prefer to send letters. Recently, I received an email from someone:

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I think this goes without saying, but telephone and email are the preferred method of communicating with me - much faster and more efficient than US mail.

Actually, she was lying about the phone, she hates the phone, hiding behind voicemail, email, etc.

I'm going to take a document, scan it numerous times so that it is unintelligible, then fax it to her...LOL

This is quite a coincidence. I sent my dues to my gun club last week and today the envelope was returned, It was stamped it couldn't be delivered because of a counterfeit stamp.

This stamp came off the very end of a roll I bought over a year ago and have used the stamps over 90 times.