Comments on: Forever Stamp

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:23:56 +0000

I use about 100 stamps per year, so I like to buy rolls of 100. Unfortunately, they don’t sell Forever stamps in rolls of 100. And the recent tendency has been for the post office to increase the rate twice a year. (With virtually no notice! The only reason I knew the rates were going up today was from an advertisement on an ATM.)

I’m still using up my $0.39 + $0.02 combos.

The stamps-by-mail order form I have doesn’t sell conversion stamps, so I tried to order some online this weekend. But every time I went to usps.gov, it said the online store was unavailable.

I still prefer stamps-by-mail to the online store. Aside from being always available, it’s faster. I’ve often received stamps THE SAME DAY, because the letter carrier sometimes opens it up right at the mailbox and will process the request on the spot.

By: Herschel

Herschel — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:26:21 +0000

Well, your old stamps aren’t actually “useless.”

You just have to go through the painful process of buying the “make-up” 1c, 2c, 10c stamps to get to the now 42 cent mailing price.

But I know, who wants to do that?

Actually, you should see how many stamps you could use to actually come up with 42 cents on one letter.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 11 May 2008 11:56:06 +0000

Mike,
I have a small stock of these. Happily, online bill pay has reduced my outbound use of the post office to maybe twice a month.
One concern: I’ve read in the past (but having just tried to track down a citation, I failed, so take this with a grain of salt:) that you cannot use these forever stamps as a $0.41 “additional postage” stamp once postage goes up. That is, that they are valid for the first ounce of a first class letter. No good for additional weight, no good for flats, etc. But like I said I can’t find a citation for that.
The reason I worry about this is that a substantial portion of my outbound mail is flats.
Jeff