Where to donate used UK postage stamps

simonsmithsays

For years we've been sending these to Macmillan Cancer but this year they've stopped accepting them.

Internet searches come up with a whole lot of inaccurate institutions who no longer accept them too.

Does anyone have an up to date information and link on who might still like to receive these please.

PennysIntoPounds

Marie Curie accepts them, there's a freepost address but I can't seem to post the link- just google 'recycle stamps Marie Curie' and the address is in the PDF doc that comes up in the search

OutdoorQueen

Parkinson’s UK will accept them.

Details here https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/get-involved/recycle-parkinsons-uk

COYBIG

Hi 
honestly I wouldn’t look to donate them. Just recycle them. Stamp collectors don’t use them so they go into, what is know as, kiloware and the only buyers of them are those people who engage in fraud by taking the stamps off paper attempting to remove the postmark and sell them again on well known marketplaces. Often these get caught and the victims are those who receive Mail and have to pay surcharges for the item being sent with a used stamp.

Don’t encourage fraud just bin them.

simonsmithsays

I found this link useful

https://moralfibres.co.uk/how-to-donate-used-stamps-to-raise-money-for-charity/#what-stamps-do-charities-accept-as-donations

penners324

Surely there's no value in a used stamp. So pointless in sending it to a charity.

As above, the only value is someone trying g to defraud people 

simonsmithsays

penners324 said:

Surely there's no value in a used stamp. So pointless in sending it to a charity.

As above, the only value is someone trying g to defraud people 

There has been value in used stamps for decades

Hence why charities have collected them 

That value has certainly dimished, in part, as less and less people collect them.

Charities still exist that want them - refer to the link I posted...

Katiehound

If you are still collecting stamps you can send to RNIB for free (we no longer have any charity collecting locally)

Print off prepaid label. That cost me 10 pence at the library!

details here
https://www.rnib.org.uk/get-involved/fundraise/do-your-own-fundraising/save-your-stamps-for-rnib/

CliveOfIndia

Sorry for the slight hijack, but I was actually thinking about this only yesterday.  Was chatting to my kids about things we use to do when I was a wee nipper, and I suddenly remembered that at school we used to collect used stamps (and the foil milk-bottle tops, who remembers those?) for charity.

I never questioned it at the time, but it occurs to me now - what's the value in used "ordinary" stamps?  Surely not for fraudulent purposes as has been suggested earlier - there must be a legitimate reason?

The only thing I can think of is that collectors buy them in bulk and hope they get the odd one with a printing error or something on it that makes it valuable - would that be it?

Katiehound

The charity sell them by weight ,
RNIB says they can raise £20 per kilo.
Foreign & commemorative are worth more. I assume that eventually down the chain the UK ones get sold abroad? (A kilo is a heck of a lot of stamps because they only have a small border left around each one)

They particularly like businesses who might get a stack of stamps to send on.

This is what you can (and can't) send:
We accept all stamps: new or used, first or second class, foreign, first day covers, presentation packs or albums. Please don’t send large gold Post Office labels or pre-printed postage marks as these have no value to RNIB.

Certainly not for fraudulent purposes.......