Using Old(but still unused) 1st Class Stamps

wileycat

macfly wrote: »

I wouldn't be wary of that at all. It's not how the sorting system works. Mail is given the service appropriate to the price.

That sounds like insider knowledge!

wileycat

spadoosh wrote: »

Ya know how stamps are legal tender.... did i massively miss a trick by not buying £1000's of stamps a few days before they went up and then after depositing them into my bank?!!

If you can work out a way to pay for goods with stamps then you could make a good discount over a day.
But not many places accept them these days!

macfly

None do. It's an urban myth. Stamps never have been legal tender.

spadoosh

macfly wrote: »

None do. It's an urban myth. Stamps never have been legal tender.

Your an urban myth, my employer accepts payment in stamps according to their induction process so nerhhh!! Smart a$$!

wileycat

spadoosh wrote: »

Your an urban myth, my employer accepts payment in stamps according to their induction process so nerhhh!! Smart a$$!

Yeah I used to buy from a mail order retailer who accepted stamps as payment as well.

lovinituk

spadoosh wrote: »

Ya know how stamps are legal tender.... did i massively miss a trick by not buying £1000's of stamps a few days before they went up and then after depositing them into my bank?!!

spadoosh wrote: »

Your an urban myth, my employer accepts payment in stamps according to their induction process so nerhhh!! Smart a$$!

I'll bet you that no bank would take them as a deposit to your account

macfly

They are not legal tender. There's no law to say you can't accept anything as payment - it's called bartering.
Mind you, I'm a bit gobsmacked that spadoosh has an employer. Must be a peach of an induction process.

MoneysavingArthur

Yep you can still use them.

Superdrug sometimes do offers on stamps so it's not what you pay for that's important.

sharpy2010

Whats to stop someone buying, by way of example, £10,000 worth of stamps today and then selling them at perhaps double price in a further ten years time?

wileycat

sharpy2010 wrote: »

Whats to stop someone buying, by way of example, £10,000 worth of stamps today and then selling them at perhaps double price in a further ten years time?

Inflation the way it is at the moment!