Stamp Collecting Gets A Black Eye

My local paper had this article in their financial section today:

http://www.omaha.com/money/postal-s...ed61ff9.html

It's a good article and raises disturbing questions- in my mind foremost is- where the heck are all the other 'upright' panes and why haven't we seen more? Is someone sitting on them?

I would say it is the USPS that got the black eye, not stamp collecting.

Yes, I agree with BeeSee. The Postal Service got a black eye when they issued the original "invert" as a $2.00 stamp. A second black eye when they came up with the idiotic idea of creating 100 error sheets.
I have to admit, I bought a sheetlet. But I used the stamps on circuits and other philatelic mail. '
If they have three eyes, they got another one for the idea of putting a sheet ( circus ) in the yearbook o nly. It seems to me that the Inspector-General should have disapproved of that created rarity also!

Peter

23 undistributed "error" sheets. What a fiasco.

I wonder how many of them are out there in unopened envelopes. I have one but I'll probably never know.

If Hillary Clinton was anywhere involved in this sort of thing, Daryl Issa would be demanding hearings.

Wasn't there indication they intentionally 'leaked' one of the error sheets to an online customer just to garner interest? Sort of tells me they have them all in a pile at the Fulfillment Center. Wonder how many will wind up in the hands of family/friends of USPS bigwigs?

Did I miss something? Looks like 6 panes were lost between paragraphs.

I too was wondering where the "missing" 6 panes might be. I'm guessing that a total of 7 rather than 1 were actually given away to SFC customers. Only 1 was given away between March & December of 2014, but an extra 6 may have been given away after that. But this is just a guess. Perhaps, to provide full disclosure, the missing 6 panes will eventually be explained.

As the great Homer Simpson would say, "Doh!"

I bought the souvenir sheet with six $2.00 stamps but I hadn't heard about this fiasco.

Terry

I agree BEESEE… its the USPS that has the problem, not stamp collecting.

Forgot. Right. More like they have been withholding them waiting till purchases died down so they can convince the gamblers to start buying again.

I know one thing, I don't have a sheet of the uprights. Heck I don't even have a sheet of the regulars.

To be honest, I highly doubt that anyone ordering a sheet from the SFC now is going to receive one of the uprights. I bet they are locked in a safe far from the normal sheets.

-MV

So, let me get this straight. They were supposedly randomly inserted with the regular issues and nobody would know if they got a sheet or not until they opened it, yet in Kansas City they're stored separately in a safe?

I'm glad I never collected modern issues.

I have no idea if the sheets are stored away in a safe that was speculation on my part.

-MV

The only fair thing to do is have a "Legends of the West" type lottery. anyone interested should be able to send in one ballot per address and there should be no charge. anyone agree?

The lottery idea is absolute genius. In the guise of making amends to collectors for their previous screw ups, they have one more shot at milking buyers. Now, if they could mess up the lottery, what would be the next scheme?