Inverted Jenny 2013 Error?

It's quite appropriate that this news release gets published on April Fool's Day: It makes fools out of us stamp collectors thinking that the 100 right-side-up Jennys were all that would hit the market. Now the count is up to 200.

http://about.usps.com/news/national...pr14_022.htm

(It sounds to me as if it might be a back-door way of getting stale inventory to move off post office shelves.)

Another perfect example of how we cannot believe anything the USPS tells us anymore.

This has to be a bad April fools joke! If true say goodbye to those $25,000.00 buy ads.

It's being posted here, too:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...3324811.html

It's being suggested that this news release may just be a re-hash of the previous announcement from their archives and the marketing people decided that a news release on April 1 may generate some new "excitement" in collecting ... but that we're only talking about the original 100 right-side-up Jenny souvenir sheets (and no more).

I guess time will tell if it was a (bad) joke.

When I first read the release, that is exactly how I interpreted it ... simply a repeat of what had been said months before. Nowhere within the release is there any mention of an extra 100 panes. Nor is there any mention of how an extra 100 panes would be inserted into the remaining Jenny Invert stockpile. It is interesting, however, that this should be released on April 1.

I'm of the opinion that this is just a re-hash of the original story to peak interest. As JLLebbert suggests, a quick read might lend one to believe that there were an additional 100 sheets of then-invert. However, slowly & closely re-reading the notice, nowhere does it hint that there are now 200 sheets (just 100 sheets of un-inverted Jennys). It is APRIL 1 so anything suspect should be considered suspect...

More here ... again, just re-visiting old information ... and this is yet another source suggesting that the Inverted Jenny Souvenir Sheets aren't exactly "flying off the shelves":

http://postalnews.com/postalnewsblo...enny-stamps/

I've got about $12.00 package to mail tomorrow. Think I'll buy a sheet for the postage. One never knows

Missed opportunity here the USPS should have made them forever stamps, then ordinary folks would have bought them and may have even made some stamp collectors. They are trying to sell stamps without a real postal usage. What % will be shredded? I picked up a sheet to use as postage. They do look really great and the engraving is well done.

The idea is good but the $2 denomination is a drawback.
Tom

Linn's Stamp News is reporting another two (2) right-side-up Jenny Souvenir Sheets have been discovered in Corning, NY and an undisclosed post office in Wisconsin bringing the Linn's tally up to 17 reported finds (with up to 83 more still to be found).

http://linns.com/news/breaking-stam...rk-Wisconsin

I mailed a package last week and knowing it was going to be around $12.00 I asked for a sheet of the Jenny hoping it would be a winner. Nope. But I irritated some of the customers in line as I put the stamps on and wasted perhaps 30 second of their time. Some of them are in their 70's or 80's and retired. What is the major rush.
Tom

I have one Jenny stamp that has what looks like an ink drop on D-DOLLAR and another with angular line in LR corner border. Anyone else have these? Maybe a variety.

CoinWatcher: I have casually 'flyspecked' my 2-sheets of the new 'Jenny' issue and found NUMEROUS printing issues with the printing quality. The dots, I've noted as 'splatter' in my inventory sheet, were prevalent on one sheet while not the other. The broken frame was noted on both. There are numerous printing quality issues common to both sheets. I would not call these varieties but the NORM for this issue. I would call a perfectly printed, high quality example of the issue a 'variety'.

Because they have less time to waste than younger folks?