Postage Stamps: Search and Destroy

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Classic BECAUSE IT IS SO BORING:

http://shop.usps.com/images/stratocumulusundulatus.jpg

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

"Boring" in a Boring Postcards sort of way. You may prefer the other ones.

Isn't it awesome that the USA chooses to commemorate the weather on its stamps?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

That's cool, esp. the name. I also like Nine Mile Prairie.

― youn, Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

cumulonimbus would be better, I think, especially if it had FORKED LIGHTNING!

incidentally, why is the 37 struck through? Is this another way of doing the same thing as stamping it with the word SPECIMEN?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 9 January 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Mike, that is the weather EVERY DAY here.

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 9 January 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

Boring but not unprofitable.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://shop.usps.com/images/04_rbfuller37_d.jpg

Utterly terrifying, I'll put it on my wedding invites.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 3 November 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.postmuseum.posten.se/utstallningar/img/greta_10kr.jpg

As I buy the supplies in my office, everyone will be using these beautiful things for the next month.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, they're nice stamps.

When I was small I was given a quite big stamp collection by a friend of my mother. It would probably be worth a few hundred quid if everything in it was neatly mounted, but I'm not interested enough to do that.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

What am I bid for thirty Elvises with first-day-of-issue cancellations from Memphis? (They might be worth as much as 50¢ each someday.)

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 3 November 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I actually excitedly awaited the release date of these stamps:
http://www.usps.com/history/anrpt04/images/rio_blankets.jpg

...but the bat stamps are my favorite:
http://www.usps.com/news/2002/philatelic/stamps/02_redbat37.jpg

― emilys. (emilys.), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Ally , that stamp really is terrifying!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

mr red bat looks like admiral akbar

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

he looks like a burn victim

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://swg.stratics.com/content/lore/personas/images/ackbar.gif

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

like an over-toasted marshmellow

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

xpost WRITE ME BACK BLOUNT

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

NEVERMIND

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 4 November 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

Destroy:
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7194/393/1600/Memin%20Penguin%2062.jpg

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

I like that 1st one. It looks like he's wearing a Hamilton Accies football strip!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Friday, 4 November 2005 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

d'oh, my cute reference to the blackface thread rendered irrelevant so soon!

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 4 November 2005 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

PSA: US stamps going up to 39c on the 8th.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

WTF someone just mailed me a package with 2 of these stamps on it:

http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/prince-andrew-stamp.jpg

That's some dedicated hoarding. 25 year old stamps still legal tender I guess?

― Operation Pooting (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 10:43 (thirteen years ago)

Stamps never expire, I believe. Last year I bought a secondhand book from someone who sent it to me in a package covered with 20 - 30 years old stamps. I'll look for the photo I took when I'm home.

― willem, Thursday, 28 July 2011 10:48 (thirteen years ago)

i remember a friend wondering whether stamps were the ultimate investment option, provided you had the capital to buy a lot & the ability to then sell on as prices rise. but i think they rise with inflation, so you kinda get what you give.

re: the original s/d:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maraid/sets/72157623178565935/

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/267106844_cad9a38abf_m.jpg

the rest of the flickr account is cool old matchbox covers & stuff

― jpeg 2000 (schlump), Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:18 (thirteen years ago)

last year I scanned my mothers stampbook

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniel_yao/sets/72157624565218479/

― flop's son (dayo), Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:23 (thirteen years ago)

four years pass...

Just found a stamp collection from childhood - loads of mint stamps, first day covers and so on.

Does anyone care about these sort of things these days?

(By which I suppose I mean: "Is it worth my while flogging them?")

Strangely, I seem to have those Royal Family stamps ... which I guess someone has calculated are worth more as "stamps to be used" than "stamps to collect" ...

― djh, Friday, 3 June 2016 20:28 (nine years ago)

There are billions of people in the world. Someone cares about them, deeply and committedly. The internet now makes it easier to connect with the ~~oddballs~~ collectors you are seeking.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 3 June 2016 20:30 (nine years ago)

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