What To Do With My Other Sheets?

I also have many sheets from the 40's through present. I have been looking at ebay and, just messing around, bought a few more at less than face value. I am not really into collecting stamps but my mother got me into a thing of picking up 2 sheets every time I went to the P.O.. Now I have them and even after all these years, they seem to have little or no cash value beyond face. I could use them but the P.O. will probably be long gone before I could make a dent and I really hate breaking up a sheet. Will there even be letters 20 years from now, IF not, will stamps become a lot more collectable? I know they are not hurting anything setting here, but it bothers me that all they have done is lost value. Suggestions, what would you do with them?

Many, if not most of us, have the same problem. Since I sell duplicates on three different forums, I am slowly using mine up. Still, on THIS forum, for instance, I could not sell a nice selection of MNH 22c commems for 20% under face, so that tells you something.

You can sell them on ebay or bidStart and probably get 80% of face (for a larger lot), then put the money into something you find more interesting, another hobby, pay off debt, etc. Paying off credit card debt gives you a huge return on investment, as it stops those 18% to 24% interest payments every month; that's like free money in your pocket.

There's also the possibility of finding a church or organization that makes monthly mailings, and offer them not only a discount, but also offer to apply the stamps yourself (so they don't have to find volunteers to do it), and that will use up a large amount in a short time. As postal rates go up, the demand for low denominations of sheets goes down and down, since there's a physical limit as to how many you can stick on an envelope. The packages I've sent since Christmas have had as many as FIFTY 5-cent stamps on them, plus a few higher denominations. It has taken me two years to "train" the postal clerks at my post office, but they now accept my stamp-covered packages as the "new normal" and cancel them very nicely, as well as accepting my count without question. Good luck with a common problem for U.S. collectors.

By the way, sheets from the 1940s, if in good condition without blemished gum and with good selvage, should bring OVER face value. "Discount" material doesn't really start until the mid-1950s.