Does Anyone Collect US Postage Due?

Wow! 2,502 posts!!
I am not worthy

Whaaaaa?!*%$
That's four of us, gee, hang on to your hat,
another few rejoinders, a few "bon mots",
and we will be going international......

Did you hear the one...
"A man walks into a bar........"

Two guys walk into a bar...
You'd think one of them would have seen it.

A dyslexic man walks into a bra........

You guys are a riot.
But I like the postage due.

Two ducks are swimming on a lake,
one duck turns to the other and says "quack, quack"
the other replies "I was going to say that!"





US ½¢ Stamp Overprinted "Postage Due"

Bertram W. H. Poole, Los Angeles, recently showed
me a copy of the 1922-26 ½¢ Nathan Hale overprinted
diagonally in one line, in black, "POSTAGE DUE."

Mr. Poole found a few of the stamps in a lot purchased
from the estate of a San Franciscan, who had been in
the postal service, also a number of covers showing
the stamps used to collect a fee of ½¢.

He believes it may have been a provisional, hastily
made up and pressed into service by the postmaster
of San Francisco for a short time just prior to the issue
of the regular postage due stamp of that denomination.

Postmasters are frequently called upon to exercise their
ingenuity and improvise a makeshift when rates change
and there are no special stamps available.

- George B. Sloane
Sloane's Column
Stamps
May 22, 1937

A termite walks into a bar and asks, "Is the bartender?"

"Do you collect postage due? Why?"

Dad collected them, therefore I collect them.

I feel pretty much like he did... If you collect stamps,
you should collect ANY stamp that comes your way.

The only reason I shrink away from 'world' stamps is to
keep Dad's collection a 'reasonable' size. I think he felt the same.

A "cooee" from Australia....

1908 2/- fresh , a few shortish perfs....$1000

Rod, my husband likes your jokes. Maybe its an Aussie thing...

An Aussie husband.. Hmmm impressed,
dare I say it Stampgal ? I think you are in good hands


1903 Aussie Postage Due
20 shillings...Australia's 2nd most valuable "Due"....$500

Charles Dickens walks into a bar and orders a Martini,
The barman enquires
"Olive or twist ?"

1902 "blank at base" vertical SPECIMEN set (7) $400

Just found a box of U.S. Postage Dues. (All given to me, or they'd wind up in a dumpster.) Based on a spreadsheet inventory, the count is over 5300 stamps. Does that make me a collector or accumulator?

Most are original gum, never hinged. Many are in block format (a few plate blocks). All have been postmarked as used (with original gum) ... which leads into my specific question: Did the post office simply postmark U.S. postage dues to represent payment of amounts due on parcels and just did not affix the stamps to the envelope(s) in question? Would there be any other valid reason for so many used postage dues with original gum?