q: re-using postage stamps that come in the mail that have no ink on them

Also, is it illegal to re-use the stamps?

Yes, it is illegal.

My grandfather, who was a very wealthy man, used to have his secretary soak the stamps off and glue them on new mail. I figured it cost him about $0.50 in wages to save $0.19 in postage (or whatever the rate was then) and illegal to boot.

about 45 years ago i knew a little girl who was in the hospital.. she told me that she would receive letters from her mother and sisters and then take the stamps and erase the ink off the stamps and alway have fresh stamps to write back to her relatives..... of course she was about

They most likely had been canceled using an UV sensitive ink and would be detected as such if used again!

Try holding them under a black light.

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-> Also, is it illegal to re-use the stamps?

Yes.

I get accused of being this in most NG's I post in and I'm just being myself.

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Chris Tsao) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mb-m04.aol.com:

That doesn't mean you're not a troll.

hahaha now thats funny.

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Stamps are a tax - with the PO, they represend a levy paid to get a package from one place to another.

That fee was paid, and the stamps are the representation of that. (see also liquor bottles, cigarettes, etc).

Using them again would indicate that they ALSO are being used to pay for your thing to be sent. And you haven't made that payment. So you'd be stealing services from the Post Office.

As understand it, even if they don't appear to be cancelled, the Post Office marks it with a clear material somewhere in the sorting process that renders it cancelled if used again.

Yes, says the Post Office