Saving money on postage stamps? (sell, sale, best, value)

[howard555]

I've seen stamps for sale ads on Facebook. A look with Google came up with positive results.

Anyone paid 1/2 price or near half price for a roll of stamps.

Today's price is $63 for a roll of 100. Here you see sellers of rolls of stamps.
Technically it says it's legally ok. Who sells these?

Well it may be someone that bought 50 rolls back when a roll cost $39 which would be going way back in time. Profit would be 50 x $24 = $1200.

Postal rates don't seem to go up often enough or high enough for there to be an unlimited number of sellers.

I'd hate to have a letter come back postage due with "phony stamp."

Anyone bought this way?

It seems like I'm always forking out $6.30 for 10 stamps. Buying in volume makes sense.

[Flamingo13]

Just say NO.

[Sarahsez]

I wouldn't trust it.

[thinkalot]

The best way to save on stamps is to quit mailing so many things.

Use online banking or pay by credit card.

Letters and greeting cards are fine but no reason to pay the electric or Visa bill by mail. If you have 5 bills a month that is 60 stamps a year.

[1200RT]

Originally Posted by thinkalot

The best way to save on stamps is to quit mailing so many things.

Use online banking or pay by credit card.

Letters and greeting cards are fine but no reason to pay the electric or Visa bill by mail. If you have 5 bills a month that is 60 stamps a year.

Less than $40/year at current rate. Even if one was able to save by half, the savings in this scenario is about $1.50/month.

But agree 100%, no reason to be mailing checks via mail anymore.

[fishbrains]

I save 100% on stamps by never using any. All bills are paid via ACH or bank bill pay.

But, if you really want to use the mail, I would not trust anybody selling stamps for significantly less than face value. That screams scam to me.

[howard555]

We have to pay three property taxes by check. The county treasurer charges $3 if we use a credit card.
Christmas and other greeting cards, other misc. mailings like tax returns. We could use a roll of 100.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

I'd suspect that half price stamps offered online are counterfeits. I would not test whether or not they would go through without detection. Or maybe they are stolen.

You save money on stamps by paying your bills on line.

My county is also one that requires taxes paid by check, but I save that postage stamp by hand delivering my taxes direct to the assessor's office. I don't much trust the post office with a check that large.

While I am always interested in ways to save money, I am not interested is using fraud to do it

[1200RT]

Originally Posted by howard555

We have to pay three property taxes by check. The county treasurer charges $3 if we use a credit card.
Christmas and other greeting cards, other misc. mailings like tax returns. We could use a roll of 100.

Can you send a bill pay check? My bank cuts a hard check to the recipient. I use this method for landscapers and other outside services that don't take CC, but we're not local when the bills need to be paid in person. I dont recall there being a fee for mailing these checks out.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Apparently, it is legal to sell stamps at less than face value. At least it was in the past. A major chain where I used to live used stamps as a loss leader. But that wasn't stamps at half price, that was a book of stamps for 25 cents les than face value.

OP's set of ads make it pretty clear that it is some sort of fraud or counterfeit. The last time a stamp cost 29 cents was 1991. No one bought thousands of rolls of stamps in 1991, saved them until 2023, and then offered to sell them for what they paid for them in 1991. But since forever stamps didn't appear until 2007, no one could have purchased forever stamps for 29 cents. The first forever stamps cost 41 cents.

Dozens of people selling rolls for 29 cent each? Not even for a truck load of stolen stamps. Stolen stamps are still worth face value and it wouldn't take much of a discount to sell them. So those are maybe counterfeit but more likely just flat out fraud.