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Post by CatnapStamps on Mar 12, 2023 19:56:15 GMT
I'm curious to hear what you do with stamps that don't interest you. I have a few hundred stamps I don't want. None of them are valuable, they're the stamps you'd find in an inexpensive bulk purchase and include CTOs. They're probably not even worth mailing to someone.
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Post by cddstamps on Mar 13, 2023 10:30:52 GMT
Hi Good question, for many years about 20 I think that is many :-) ... we have had a Children's Box (we advertise it on the cddstamps website ) - so any spare or even not up to our quality to list in the store stamps eg pulled perfs small creases etc we put in the Children's Box and when we get requests we send them those stamps. Last week for example we gave away around 500 and made some local children very happy.
so if you know come children or schools maybe... they will enjoy receiving the stamps. michael cddstamps
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Post by stampie83 on Mar 13, 2023 19:02:53 GMT
I'm curious to hear what you do with stamps that don't interest you. I have a few hundred stamps I don't want. None of them are valuable, they're the stamps you'd find in an inexpensive bulk purchase and include CTOs. They're probably not even worth mailing to someone. The ISWSC (International Society of Worldwide Stamp Collectors) has a kids outreach program where they send stamp packets to stamp clubs on request. The idea being to get schools and kids clubs interested in stamp collecting. Membership in the ISWSC and rules can be found at -- ISWSC .org. Information on the program also found there.
Part of membership is a donation of 250 WW stamps for the kids program.
I only send large stamps and no damaged and very few definitives.
Might want to check out the ISWSC site.
Also some church groups collect stamps for either resale or some other reason. (again no damaged)
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Post by CatnapStamps on Mar 14, 2023 19:21:52 GMT
It's a small world. I know one of the ISWSC "board" members. I'll give her the stamps the next time I see her. Our local club has boxes & boxes of this type of material, so I know they don't want it. But she might be able to use it for ISWSC outreach. Thanks for the tip.
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Post by fairyfoot on Apr 12, 2023 13:50:56 GMT
Growing up in the UK, if you didn't collect stamps yourself, you saved them for charity. One long running children's tv show, Blue Peter, had annual charity events - one year, they got children into recycling drinks cans (aluminium), before councils got into recycling collections for cans/bottles/etc. At least once, they've asked for used postage stamps. Various charities accept used stamp donations, children's hospitals, disease research & support, aid organisations (e.g. Oxfam - I noticed a while back their Canadian website had stamps listed, but not on the US website),.... I've noticed one of the local supermarkets has a box to put used stamps in for a children's cancer charity. [edit - this one has now gone, blaming the switch to barcoded stamps] I looked briefly for charities outside the UK. There's Tubfrim in Norway, Bethel in Germany, and Stamps for the Wounded in the US... are ones that come to mind without me doing a quick search. Some of my penfriends who don't collect stamps, occasionally put them in their journals/scrapbooking or decorate things with them. Some people do art/craft projects with stamps, e.g. Tonia Jillings. ArtStamped has an article on Stamp Active - www.stampactive.co.uk/art-stamped-bringing-stamps-lives/
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Post by Philatelic Steve on Apr 5, 2024 23:33:12 GMT
If a stamp is damaged (ripped, trimmed perforations, etc) I use them to make collage postcards that I’ll use for Postcrossing.
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