Flaw Stamp Sheet

I bought some USPS Batman stamp sheet last week and found that there is a scratch in the middle of each sheet. It looks like there was a hair in the printer when Postal Office printed those stamps.

Should I keep those stamp sheet or should I return or exchange them back to USPS?

b28, welcome to this forum! I do not know the answer to your question, but if I were you I'd hang on to these. They may turn out to be varieties that are worth a few dollars.

Peter

Hello b28, welcome to Stamp Community!

Is the sheet protected by a plastic covering perhaps?

Or, is the hair-like scratch felt rising up from the sheet or cut into the sheet perhaps?

Rising up, a stray hair maybe.

Cut into, ouch, a war wound.

If other sheets have this same flaw(?) then you have am error or freak oddity that does interest some collectors along the economic tail of collecting.

Do you have a picture of this from a different angle perhaps, in a different light?

Could the hair be on the scanner?

Doug

b28...Look where my arrows are pointing...It is raised like the stamp colour..Looks like a HAIR in my opinion.
Robert

Hello Puzzler, the sheet is not protected by a plastic covering. It is like hair-like scratch printing. Same as what dkucyk said, it is very possible a a hair was in the scanner or printer. I bought 7 sheets and they all have the same scratch printing at the same spot.

It is the first time I heard of hair-like scratch on stamp so I don't know if this is considered error stamp.

The question is whether it was a scratch on the printing plate (which would make it a collectable constant plate variety), and hair or fiber on the printing plate (which would make it a collectable freak), or a scratch on the stamp pane itself (which would make it an undesireable flaw).