Stamps - where do they get them all from?

Snowbelle

Just intrigued as to how some sellers have so many unfranked stamps and stramps that they have obviously stuck onto silicon paper for sale?

alanq

Many of my Christmas cards arrived unfranked.

Snowbelle

alanq wrote: »

Many of my Christmas cards arrived unfranked.

Yes I get that sometimes you may get a few but these people have hundreds and hundreds.

campdave

They either work or know someone who works in an office receiving large volumes of mail, or they buy stamps by the kilogram and sift through them.

SpammyTheSpammer

campdave wrote: »

They either work or know someone who works in an office receiving large volumes of mail, or they buy stamps by the kilogram and sift through them.

That's the actions of
a. devoted stamp collector
b. or, a miser

Snowbelle

campdave wrote: »

They either work or know someone who works in an office receiving large volumes of mail, or they buy stamps by the kilogram and sift through them.

That did cross my mind but seems they would have to be really lucky to get so many that miss the franking.

force_ten

they make them ? they are fake stamps

if somebody can be bothered faking mcdonalds coffee beans for a free cup of coffee then why not print fake stamps

custardy

Snowbelle wrote: »

Yes I get that sometimes you may get a few but these people have hundreds and hundreds.

You know when people donate stamps to charity?
Where do you think the value comes from?

Snowbelle

custardy wrote: »

You know when people donate stamps to charity?
Where do you think the value comes from?

I'd never really given this any thought as to what they did with the stamps. The penny has dropped now though.

stressedaah30

my dad tried to sell his vast stamp collection to a dealer and was told he,d be best using them to post letters etc so he has been for a year

emmbrook

Bear in mind too that a lot of stamp sales on eBay aren't unfranked but are new and unused - even if 30 or more years old. Many stamp dealers sell excess stock off this way. They buy in bulk, keep what they need and sell th rest on. All my postage is bought in this way, I save 25% to 30%, occasionally more, on Royal Mail prices, plus my mail goes out looking very colourful!

Those that sell on unfranked but used stamps are as others have said, those who buy kiloware from charities etc and sort out the ones that got missed. It's not lawful to reuse them, though plenty presumably do.