should be able to locate documents that show USPS selling older forever stamps at a substantial discount. I doubt one could find such documentation.
Yes and no.
There are valid US postage stamps sold legally every day oneBay and elsewhere at discounts.
The rolls of current Forever stamps are, I believe, sold at Costco for a discount. And USPS is supplying them directly.
On eBay those rolls pictured above are very questionable, especially at the kind of discounts specified.
However, many stamp dealers, here and in shops, buy tonnes of valid postage daily at steep discounts and sell at lesser discounts.
Because : collectors.
The USPS has a Fulfillment Centre where stamp collectors can buy current issues (at full face). They do this to keep their collections up to date when local post offices prefer the low labour alternative of making labels.
We get those collections of mint never hinged and valid postage stamps when the collector dies. The widow brings in $10,000 in face value postage, often more and often in the original never opened package, and we buy at well under face.
Turning the stuff in the estate into money, which is more useful.
Surprisingly some collectors will have those rolls. Perhaps the intention was to check them for valuable varieties. Perhaps it was the OCD kicking in. Perhaps the collector was really a hoarder.
So yes there are valid, legal, postage lots available on eBay.
What we postage resellers /stamp dealers won't have is multiple rolls of Forever stamps. That's not how our collector base thinks.
Fun fact, every stamp of the USA since the end of your Civil War is still valid for postage. Even the Jenny Invert.
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