Quick Question

Is it common to stick stamps on the back of the envelope, if the front is full ?

Braveheart.......


I do......never had a complaint from any postal worker.

Mmmmm ! just that I have this envelope from Pakistan here, that I thought was unusual... Busy Busy Busy !





They must have run out of higher denomination stamps !

I wanted to put stamps all around the blank sides of a parcel recently and the postal people looked at me funny and took my stamps and stuck them all on one side (addressed one) and just overlapped them so the denominations were showing.

I suppose you could stick them anywhere yourself and just take it in to them that way, but I think postal people are trained to just look for them on one side. maybe a note and an arrow indicating the other side should be used? For those that can understand that symbology and language.

ooh, you were posting envelope pictures when I was typing away like a mad man.

Nice envelope. Good example of creative positioning and use of every available space to stick stamps on. I like it. Not enough arrows and symbols though.

Very inspiring for those of us () who like to push the postal boundaries when creating a historic cover. Gives one ideas.

I can only )right now) see about one third of those pictures on my slower internet connection here. I will have to look at them when I get to the library with their super high speed connection.

Puzzler.......

In the US overlapping is not allowed......although I've seen mail get through with overlapped stamps.

In other countries it happens a lot.






Stamps front and back.

I've done it before. If I run out of space on the front of the envelope I do use the back. Never had a problem.




Butch

Interesting. I would have guessed it would be a big No-No with USPS regulations!