VENT: Stamps are only sticky for 30 days!!!

neilmcl

I'm still using stamps from a load I got commemorating the London Olympic games, so that kind of blows this claim out of the water.

DoaM

custardy wrote: »

Still sticky. So perhaps you can add some context to your whine?

Or better yet - just add some wine and stop whining?

Autumnella

Unless they have previously been peeled away from the backing they should never lose their stick and why would prittstick jam their machines? It would be dry long before it reaches the sorting machine. A stamp that has cellotape over it can't be franked. You're being awkward for the sake of it.

bap98189

Why can't you use cellotape? I've been taping stamps for years and letters have always got to their destination.

custardy

bap98189 wrote: »

Why can't you use cellotape? I've been taping stamps for years and letters have always got to their destination.

because the stamps cannot be fully cancelled.

custardy

Autumnella wrote: »

Unless they have previously been peeled away from the backing they should never lose their stick and why would prittstick jam their machines? It would be dry long before it reaches the sorting machine. A stamp that has cellotape over it can't be franked. You're being awkward for the sake of it.

the edges tend to lift when pritt stick is used

Tigsteroonie

So if you cannot use sellotape, and you cannot use pritt-stick, what can you use - spray mount?

molerat

I have used sellotape on irregular shaped and soft parcels but just cover the perforations and not going into the coloured part of the stamp.

Nilrem

I'm guessing that RM only guarantee the stamps stickyness for 30 days because they have no idea how you'll store them, and 30 days is the minimum they've allowed for under the worst "normal" conditions that don't actually destroy them.
Probably along the lines of 30 days if stored in a moist environment at 45c or something as they'll be using a commercially available adhesive and that'll be where the 30 days comes from.

I've still got self adhesive stamps that are 5+ years old that i keep finding in odd places (usually one or two left in a book), which so far have still worked.