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Tis the season of card sending and receiving and even though I haven’t got to the end of how we can avail of the collection of used stamps it should only be a matter of time before I get some useful information.
So cut off the stamps from the evelopes that you receive and hopefully we will be able to source how we can use them as a fund raiser…no point in waiting till after the reindeer has bolted to ask you to start collecting them!
If anyone has any knowledge of the process that charities use please PM me and I will investigate.
th_dogwithsantahat.jpgI did a bit of googling and it seems that Irish charities who do used stamp collecting make their profits by selling to stamp collectors/dealers. The IPCC (Irish Peatland Conservation Council) have this to say about their used stamp collecting: "Postage Stamps (and associated philatelic stuff) we sort stamps into different
categories (Irish Commemoratives; Irish Definitives; World; and UK
Commemoratives and Definitives), they get trimmed to leave a 1 cm margin around the edge and we then sell them to Irish and international stamp dealers or as stamp collectors packs in the shop. Last year alone we received 83,000 grams of stamps from our supporters and the general public."Google always makes you feel smart!
I’ll certainly get saving any stamps that come through our door and Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to help out with this project! It seemes you might need all hands and paws on deck for this one! Hello Audrey. I collect stamps and all I know, there has to be a very wide margin around the stamp. Whoever gets them ready for whatever happens to them, trims the surround to an appropriate size. I have no idea what that size/margin is and don’t know what charities do with the stamps but am in the process of collecting anything and everything stamp-like. The current lot due to go to German Shepherd Rescue, Scotland. The important bit of this message is the WIDE MARGIN around the stamp. On a totally different subject – great news about Twinkle and always nice to read positive things about Velvet. I am on the trail of Willow now!!! All gone a bit quiet there but my stalking head is back on ).There needs to be a paper margin around the stamps but not excessive – some dealers will want up to 1 cm and others perhaps half that. Dealers will pay on the basis of ‘kiloware’ essentially the weight of the stamps with the backing paper. They will not sort through them manually, especially if just off current day letters! They will generally only deal in quite large quantities (perhaps a black bin bag size as the very minimum) and they must be presented correctly or the price paid is considerably reduced. A lot of charities will also make up bags of stamps and sell them in their shops, so that is a way of getting rid of less desirable ones or getting a bit more for them than say a dealer would give.
Price will also vary as to the mix of stamps and quality – damaged stamps are a definite no no! The mix (as in just Irish, worldwide etc.) will depend on the dealer; some may pay more if sorted by country etc. Also not including the back of the envelope (as in the flap part) in the cut out part is important, as that just adds to the weight and is undesirable from a dealer’s perspective. The other downside now is the sticky printed labels that the post office sell instead of stamps – some people will collect these but dealers don’t regard them as stamps per se. If you can get folk to trim them correctly (whatever that may be!), then it will save a lot of time from the final sorter’s perspective. Bear in mind sorting can be a time consuming activity!!
Perhaps try…irelandstamps.com 497 2520/ sales@irelandstamps.com (Rathgar); or Cathedral stamps (off O’Connell St.) on 8786384 / sales@cathedralstamps.com; or MacDonnell Whyte (Rathmines) 4977449 / mdwltd@eircom.net. They should be able to point you in the right direction if it’s not of interest to them.
On a different idea, how about collecting the Dublin bus change tickets?? It’s amazing how many of these you see discarded beside bus stops because folk couldn’t be bothered cashing them in…hassle I suppose!
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I’ll certainly get saving any stamps that come through our door and Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to help out with this project! It seemes you might need all hands and paws on deck for this one!
Hello Audrey. I collect stamps and all I know, there has to be a very wide margin around the stamp. Whoever gets them ready for whatever happens to them, trims the surround to an appropriate size. I have no idea what that size/margin is and don’t know what charities do with the stamps but am in the process of collecting anything and everything stamp-like. The current lot due to go to German Shepherd Rescue, Scotland. The important bit of this message is the WIDE MARGIN around the stamp. On a totally different subject – great news about Twinkle and always nice to read positive things about Velvet. I am on the trail of Willow now!!! All gone a bit quiet there but my stalking head is back on 
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