Inverted Jenny 2013 Error?

This issue is a great stamp to give to a child. Along with the story of the original invert and fact that airplanes use to look like the Jenny. I imagine there will be a few new collectors thanks to this issue.

I believe you're right.
Tom

If the post office wanted to pay tribute to this classic stamp it should have been done as a souvenir sheet, but that's just my opinion.

The Inverted Jenny Reprint IS a Souvenir Sheet (that's why there's only six stamps to the pane.) The majority of collectors feel the $2 denomination on each stamp is the problem; no practical use for the stamps other than for parcels or philatelic contrived covers. If they were denominated for "first class mail" use, there would be a lot more of them sold, I'm sure.

To me it is truly amazing how much the USPS is botching this release. First, the poor choice of denomination, then lots of secrecy around the release and the kind of ham-handed way the USPS handled the release of the special 100 mini-sheets. Then word of clerks opening the super secret packets of the stamps to sell as postage on a single-stamp basis.

Then, the bizarre way USPS marketers issued a "new" news release on April 1 without mentioning that the stamps were released in the fall and that more than a dozen of the right-side-up stamps had already been found. (The email heading was: April Fools Prank? 'Misprinted Stamps Escape Postal Vault'). Truly, it was one of the worst April Fool's jokes gone wrong because there was so much misunderstanding about it.

You would think that in this day with a healthy budget for marketing and promotion - AND the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee available to help - that this would have all been thought out much more thoroughly.

It's a terrible mess. (And truth be told, I have purchased several sheets. I am using them to mail copies of my mystery novel based on the original stamp.)

Did you hear how this April Fool's Joke apparently backfired on the USPS because one of their reps at Stamp Fulfillment Services told a collector that it was apparently an additional 100 stamps for a total of 200 right-side up Jennys? Of course, it was later confirmed only to be the original 100, but apparently the SFS clerk is being re-trained because of the news headline about it:

http://linns.com/news/us-stamps/379...panes-issued

Ooops, my bad wt1. I haven't collected any modern issues since they became stickers

I finally purchased 5 sheets for my collection after reading that only 18 error sheets have been found to date. And, as my luck has it, I didn't find an inverted invert. I guess I'll go back to playing the lottery ...

Brian

One of the previous links to a Linn's Stamp News article on the subject estimated it this way:




Of course, the number of error sheets is what is REPORTED to the USPS, not what may actually have been found. There could be a wide spread in those numbers as there are valid reasons why one may not choose to report the find (tax implications and secondary market stability to cite a couple of examples) so the stamp collecting public may never know just how many have been found.

Would anyone know whether any of the right-side-up Jennys so far reported had come directly from the USPS (i.e., ebay store, website, and/or SFS)? I am thinking of buying 100 packets as a last push to get my hands on one of the 100 rare Jennys, but undecided on how to do it (to go to a post office or order directly from the USPS).

Whether you buy stamps on the ebay store or the USPS website or phone in your order from the USA Philatelic Catalog, they all come from SFS, so I believe that is a single source ... and yes, the USPS has reported that the stamps were divided evenly among those shipped to post offices and those at SFS, so it's pure luck and no benefit (in terms of odds) as to whether you buy the panes through SFS or at your local post office.

I think there was at least 1 copy received from the SFS, and it was early on in the hunt. I get suckered into buying one each time I make a purchase. I am going on a trip next week & might try the local PO when I mail my PCs to family, but then I would have to be awfully lucky!!

Linns recently posted a story on the blunderbuss nature of this issue. See it here. I found ten sheets in my local post office. Bought them all and no right side ups found.

http://linns.com/news/editorial-ins...nded-in-2015

Well, it's started. This is the first instance I've seen of an auction house (in this case, Kelleher) offering one of the right-side-up Jennys. It's lot 820.

http://stampauctionnetwork.com//V/v65241.cfm

The lot is for a single stamp, not a full sheet. It will be somewhat interesting to see the response.

that's awfully high for a stamp printed that way on purpose. But whatever. Great way for the post office to create a buying frenzy.