Just Move Stamps To Be Destroyed Because Of Safety Concerns

Here's a link to another article dated 10/16/2013 on the "Just Move" stamps that concludes with an interesting calculation on the cost of commemorative stamp production that I hadn't heard before from any USPS source:

http://hamptonroads.com/2013/10/eve...rip-away-fun




If that calculation is accurate, it comes out to about $0.003 per stamp, not including destruction costs, if that's the final outcome for these stamps. Admittedly, it will hardly make a dent in the USPS financial situation, but it does help to quantify what it actually cost the USPS these days to print new stamp issues.

Thank you for the info Scott. I will check out those auctions.

Kris

Was there a stamp about a motorcyclist with no helmet? Kids survive their "childhood" more than adults do. Funny thing.


-IBFS

An update to an old thread.

It seems this NY Post Article of 11/29/2014 (see link below) suggests that the "Just Move" stamps that were to be featured on a set of stamps in 2013 but never distributed because of safety concerns about the images depicted are going to be redesigned, as a new set of similar stamps with more acceptable images are being worked on as a future US stamp issue.

What I find especially interesting is reference to the cost of printing the old stamps ($146,250) which were worth $22 million dollars in face value had they been sold. This figures out to be something on the order of 45 million stamps that will presumably be destroyed in deference to issuing a new series of stamps with more acceptable stamp images.

http://nypost.com/2014/11/29/unused...e-warehouse/

More on the "Just Move" stamps from Linn's Stamp News:

http://linns.com/news/breaking-stam...mps-expected

It does make you wonder why the USPS would take up good real estate to keep these stamps in storage if they fully intend to destroy the inventory and revise and reprint the issue.

That's the federal government for you. A bunch of idiots

You forgot "present company excluded".

Robert

"What I find especially interesting is reference to the cost of printing the old stamps ($146,250) which were worth $22 million dollars in face value had they been sold. This figures out to be something on the order of 45 million stamps"

Works out to be about 0.3 cents each.

They ought to go ahead & issue the stamps as they are, political correctness be damned!

Well, remember the costs of labour for distribution and sales of the stamps, a sheet or block or stamp at a time, storage of same and continuous inventory of the same. Plus coffee machines and breaks and tables and cups and mopping the floors and mouse traps and new glassess for the peoples and everything.

It always amazes me how much I can get for the price of a stamp.

<sigh> yet another example of past winners of the Darwin award trying to keep others from being victimized by natural selection.

oh well.

iowaplayer

I heard they've been cancelled and replaced by images of foods that are healthy for kids school lunches. you know, the ones the kids won't touch...thanks michelle. lol

Here too?