attn chapeau_noir .......The amount of stamps placed on the package covers all the tracking...As you see originally all postage stamps were purchased from the post office and they ( the USPS ) alredady have the money. Whether it be yesterday, last year, 10 years ago , 20 years ago and so on...the only thing that changes is the going price of stamps of the day and the cost of the shipping of a package....Like i placed a lot of 5c stamps that were the cost of a letter in the mid 1960's what would be the difference if there were all 35 x 10c cent stamps on the package or 6 x forever stamps + 1 x 50c stamp???? There could also be 3 x $1 stamps - 2 x 20c staps and 10 x 1c stamps...It would all come to the same price. I even do it with priority mail flat rate envelopes and
boxes no matter the size....The priority boxes are the best as i can place a complete sheet of 3c . 4c , 5c, 6c or 8c stamps with the balance on the other side. I get rid of more quantity of stamps that way . Attached you will find a usps receipt i recently shipped to colorado....The username is not on there nor the name of the person or the adress so it is not disclosing anyones personal information....Take a note of what is stated under the tracking numbers that i omitted for the buyers protection. Actual item cost 6.70 but i accidently placed 7.25 in stamps....Was all mentioned on the invoice where in ( ) it said at the bottom affixed amount. I think i counted the stamps out wrongly at the beginning...my loss i guess. I dont do that all the time but to get rid of bulk small values, it sometimes pays off.
So you see the fact i may have bought the stamps many years ago ( which i did in Australia ) before i moved to USA in 2011 , it does not matter what values i place on a package...AS LONG AS IT TOTALS THE EXACT AMOUNT NEEDED OR A FEW CENTS MORE. You cannot place less than the amount needed....Many times i have placed stamps that are a few cents more like 50c stamps to send a 49c as i was short of the smaller values. I dont mind losing a penny to gain with using up the others. The usps does not care as long at the right amount is covered. I even do it for my stamp club and they only pay media mail price and are a non profit organization.
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In australia ( prior 2011 ) i used to sell boxes of DL window face business enveopes pre stamped for 80% of face value on ebay and could not keep up with them. I could not ship them as then it would counteract the saving made . It was pick up only and limited to buyers in Melbourne Victoria Australia. I dont do that now as i cannot as i do not have enough stamps to warrant the amount needed so i just use them on my ebay packages. As you see it save the buyer 20% at the post office and saved them paying their office staff for unproductive work so both sides won. Decided to add 2 more pics of packages of photos i sent to my family in Australia as my brother collects stamps like me.
He also used to buy stamps off me under the face value to counteract some of his ebay expenses but now as i only use USA stamps, he has to fend for himself. Those days on me helping him are long gone.
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As always there are going to be many people that disagree with me but what do they do in front of television each night?? They just sit there stuck to the goon box ( australian slang for television ) like beached whales whilst i am doing the envelopes and earning money. It is a shame i cannot place my eeymayal adress in here or we would talk personally but we have to play by ebay rules and laws. As i said before, the more money you place into the stamps, the larger the profit it will be and there is no way of a loss as they will always remain at face value... I have been doing this since i was 17 years old ( 1975 ) of age and am now 61 next month so there has to be some benefit to it. In those early days i did not worry about the profit made as i was working as well and let the stamps take care of themselves....I used the profit to simply buy more stamps at stamp shows until i had a back flow of close to $5000 face value so i know i would not run out too quickly. Those were in my teen years but as i got older, that quantity had to increase due to the added customers i obtained. Note i am speaking only of aussie stamps ...Then when ebay came around, i had to upgrade to higher valued face value stamps which took up mor money to outlay. I did not switch to USA stamps until the year 2010 as i was moving to ohio in 2011 and aussie stamps were useless in USA. I got rid of them before my migration. Real estate agents were the best as they needed to mail out accounts for rental properties every week and i always kept 10 completed boxes of envelopes on hand. When they bought in 2 new boxes, i then gave them the stamped boxes with their bill . Nowadays it is nearly all computerized so the Real Estate agents have somewhat dwindled for me. Did you notice something here???
You do not need a college education to do this...All you need is the first initial $ amount of cash to outlay and guts to spend it on stamps that may sit in the cupboard for a while until the wheel starts rolling.
I started it all off with $560.00 in 1974 which was the total money i received as gifts from my friends and family
in 1970 for my barmitzvah.
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WHAT I DO WITH MONEY EARNT FROM ENVELOPES
In fact, in 1971 the first hard rock cafe opened in Lonon UK.
In 1974 invested the bami money into stamps
1989 i used the money i earnt from the stamps to start off my
HRC pin collection and that collection just snowballed from there.
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To close off, i know it worked for me and i wanted to get my children
doing it so by the time they were 18 years old, they had a downpayment
on their first car each as in Australia as it is legal to drive at 18.
But the kids of today over there are way too lazy to want to do any
sort of work. They just want things on a silver platter.
If the envelopes are not easy money to earn, then nothing is.
I know ebay wont like what i have said and they will more than likely
delete parts of it but really the envelopes were
sold on their site and they got commission so i dont know what they can complain about..
OIO
