What To Do . . . What To Do?

My US collection settled into Mystic albums but not before I had acquired CWS Eagle and Seal albums (current through 2005) and Harris (current through 2007). The CWS never had stamps in them and Harris only a few. I am pretty sure they have no chance of selling on ebay and the postage would be significant. I don't have an active club or group to donate them to. At one time I thought about treating them like stockbooks - but decided that was a bad idea. Anyone have any thoughts or ideas? I hate to just chuck them - but they take up a lot of room. I also see I somehow accumulated 6-7 envelopes of blank Minkus US pages.

There's probably a central collection point for "Stamps for Veterans" or something like that. Sounds perfect for them.

If you donate to veterans, I will send you $2 worth of mint postage to help out with shipping, and hope others will too.

I will also donate postage stamps to use to ship. I know I can get the gals and guys at my American Legion Post to also help. E-mail me.. Keith

What kind of stamps do the vets like?
I have heard of doing that, and I have an excess of post WW2
US stamps. So many duplicates that I will never have any use for them.
Do they care if they get tons of stamps, with tons of duplicates within?

I also have some Scott albums for collecting something called
"Comprehensive Plate Coil"... It has page after page of what
appears to be the same stamp, in coil strips, but they all must
be ever so slightly different, because there are spots for them.

??? I have no idea what to do with that stuff. The collection is
about half full, and the stamps are modern (1980s?)...
I have no interest in keeping this collection. Is this something
that could be sold or donated? Or would the vets be like me and
not know what the heck to do with it? Scott makes an album, so
someone has to know what they are and collect them. Right?

The key, I think, is to find the primary stamps-for-vets website, and see its guidelines. As I understand it, most of the recipients are severely-disabled long-term patients in VA Hospitals around the country.

My guess is that they will take any and everything, and what they can't use, gets sold to buy supplies for the group(s). I will email the APS today and see what they know about the various groups and their legitimacy.

For years, I have been donating stamps and covers to the wounded veteran's club at

Department of Veterans' Affairs Medical Center
ATTN: Maurice A. Storck
Veterans' National Stamp and Coin Club # 135 S.C.
3601 South 6th Avenue
Tucson, Arizoa 85723

They can use just abount anything. They have a web site at http://stampcollectingroundup.blogs...in-club.html

Since they have many members with new ones added, to them there is no such thing as duplicates.

look up the wounded warriors project.

Another suggestion:

Set up a 'freebie' box at the local/nearest boyscout office/store. Someone set one up at my local office and I have seen several kids start collecting this way. Save postage and maybe get some new collectors started.

Nothing wrong with donating to kids, but...

Disabled veterans (especially the young men coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan -- 50+ years of pain and shattered dreams ahead of them) are 100 times more deserving than "kids," I believe. But it is also important to find the real and dedicated veterans' group(s).

And saving postage is not an issue -- I have over $2000 face value in Ziplok bags by denomination, more than I'll ever use in my lifetime. Many of us have so much we can donate what's needed, pro-rata, and never miss it.

I haven't heard back from the APS yet.