Potatoes in the Mail

Re:Potatoes in the Mail by crazygringo on Friday April 18, 2025 @10:05AM (#43728217)

> Nearly all U.S. stamps issued since World War II don’t have value.

Can you elaborate? I don't know what this means, and other commenters seem confused as well.

From your description, it sounds like they very much have value -- 60–75% as you say.

And what are face stamps?

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Re:Potatoes in the Mail by rtkwe on Friday April 18, 2025 @10:09AM (#43728252)

I believe they mean collector value hence them being worth less than their face value (which should in theory be the rough floor for them since they're still valid postage).

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Re:Potatoes in the Mail by nativeit on Friday April 18, 2025 @10:10AM (#43728261)

I think they’re referring to “forever stamps”, which are worth whatever the cost of a first class stamp normally is. They were designed to deal with the fact that people would buy stamps at a certain face-value which would then become difficult to use when postage rates rise to some non-integer multiple of the older stamps.

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Re:Potatoes in the Mail by crazygringo on Friday April 18, 2025 @10:14AM (#43728296)

Forever stamps were only introduced in 2007. Which is a long time after WWII...

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Re:Potatoes in the Mail by lupire on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:31AM (#43729015)

Technically they are USA Forever, which is looking less and less like Forever.

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