Today’s feature is from Logos.com with the blog post: The Secret to Beating the Postage Increase

It turns out that there are thousands upon thousands of people happily stockpiling stamps while completely oblivious to the fact that the vast majority of all stamps are, guess what… used as stamps, and will never be worth more than their face value. They buy every roll or book of postage issued, no matter how mass-produced they may be, hoping they will strike it rich with a bunch of collector’s items someday. Eventually they pass on and their heirs inherit tons of old postage with no special collectable value at all. They can’t use that much postage themselves, so they sell it to the local stamp and coin place at pennies on the dollar.

The idea is to buy older stamps cheaper than the face value. Stamp values don’t decrease over time (with the post office) and if it states 25¢, it’s 25¢ postage–no matter what. Cool!

Also Lifehacker shares a tip for the “Forever” stamps:

Buy the new “forever” stamps now but DON’T use them yet! The real value in the new “forever” stamp will be realized at the next and future rate changes. As soon as I bought some of the “forever” stamps this morning the nice lady behind post office counter said “put them away for later” and explained the strategy.

Timely tips if you’re in the U.S.–postal rates increase on Monday.

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