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Stamp Crazy Fun

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Stamp Crazy Fun
Swap Coordinator:CraftDiva4 (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Letters & Writing  Postage Stamps 
Number of people in swap:13
Location:International
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:March 14, 2009
Date items must be sent by:March 23, 2009
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

This swap was inspired by a swap I sent recently and the envelope was filled with stamps as I left my wallet at home and had no money. To send a 72 cent letter I used the1, cent, 3 cent, 10 cent, 17 cent and 27 cent postage I had with me.

For this swap it's simple you will have 2 swap partners. Send each swap partner a short note or card. Simple, the fun part is that you have to use at least 4 different denominations of postage on the envelope. The more the merrier! For example to send a 1st class letter in the US it costs 42 cents. Instead of (1) 42 cent stamp you could use (42) 1 cent stamps, or (14) 3 cent stamps.

I can only imagine the look on postal employees faces when they see a letter with 42 stamps on it!

As of now I will keep the swap international, unless I get feedback that it is not possible to do so due to various mail regulations. Most postage from the US going international is around 94 cents so it is a relatively inexpensive swap.

Anyone with a 4.8 rating and higher can join, but you must contact me if you have more than 1 no sends. Newbies are welcome with a completed profile, which I will check. Please NO Flakers, I will try to angel any no sends.

Current denominations of US postage stamps available are: 1 cent, 2 cent, 3 cent, 4 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent, 17 cent, 27 cent, 41 cent, 42 cent, 59 cent, 60 cent, 62 cent, 63 cent, 72 cent, 75 cent ,80 cent, 84 cent, 94 cent

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Discussion

chilady61 03/ 9/2009 #

my mailman is an old school mail man he would refuse to take it and he would tell me to go to the post office and get some regular stamps . LOL!!!

IslandBroad 03/ 9/2009 #

I love the idea of this swap. I recently purchase "Wreck this Journal" and it instructs to put stamps from ALL my mail on 2 pages... Yeah its random LOL So this is a PERFECT swap!

Lizzy 03/ 9/2009 #

Newbie here but would love to join this swap.....! I actually do this a lot in sending international mail b/c I won't just slap too much postage on....lol. Please, please, can I play?

CraftDiva4 03/ 9/2009 #

Lizzy, yes you can join. Thank you!

CraftDiva4 03/ 9/2009 #

I don't want anyone upsetting their mailman, so no need to go overboard. I just though it would be cool to send some different stamps to people. Anyone can slap the forever Liberty Bell stamp on a letter. But the 27 cent stamps have tropical fruit on them!

Franstuff 03/11/2009 #

My mail lady laughs everytime she picks my packages up. They actually have to take them. Stamps are valid postage. I took a priority mail package in to the post office a couple of weeks ago. The postage was 8.70, and the largest denomination stamp I had was 52 cents and I only had six of those. The rest of them were no more than 32 cents. The lady who took it looked at it and raised her eyebrows , then said "are you sure there is enough postage on it?" I replied that there was 8.70 on it if she wished to count... The package was covered in stamps. I have a bunch of postage stamps left from my father's collection that aren't worth more than postage... I have more stamps than money, so that's what I use to swap with. I'll be joining this one...grin

Franstuff 03/11/2009 #

by the way, I have sent plenty of international letters and packages with multiple stamps. Today I got to 6.20 with 20 stamps on a 6 x 9 envelope...

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