Largest Number Stamps On Envelope/Package Photo Thread

I plan to send this envelope to my sister tomorrow.

There are 40 stamps on the front and 15 on the back.

At the GASS I saw a banker's box covered on all four sides. No idea how many were on it......

tomorrow's outgoing mail

I've sent many packages via USPS (not the cheapest) covered in stamps. my package rules: use one denomination, all self adhesives or complete sheets, apply in rectangular arrays to aid in counting, keep it to 1-2 sides, and put the math down. still they do it the hard way...

Good way to use up the old sheets from the 50's that many of us have in abundance

eraserman: Do you think the USPS machines would be able to read an envelope like that with so many stamps?

gwanghoops: Your stamps and the way you have them affixed to the envelopes makes your mail look classy and elegant.

One way to ensure a correct USPS facer-canceled read is to place, in the upper right hand corner, a low-value current self-adhesive definitive or some other modern stamp that is tagged. The equipment is looking for a tagged stamp in the upper right corner. And you only need one.

Torin, no but then again I do not expect it to go through the machines.

I figure a employee will count it and find out there are enough on it and either cancel it by hand stamp or marker monkey it or just let it go through with out canceling them.

Hey gwanghoops would you mind listing the stamps you used since there are a few that I would like to buy and use.

Pretty much *everything* goes through the machines - even items with the non-machinable surcharge paid!

Hey Torin yesterday I got a text from my sister telling me she received the envelope, so it made it through okay.

She did not say when she received it and since she checks her mail every few days instead of everyday I do not think she will know the exact day she got it.

Since Torin mentioned this thread today from a different thread, I bumped it. The first the quotes are from Torin. For fun and diversity I am including some examples of many stamps compared to what they are affixed after the text.




In the USA the USPS disallows covered postage, either overlapped stamps or stamps covered by clear tape. The reason for no overlap is prior cancellation evidence can be covered over (mentioned as done in one post). The correct way around it is to place the stamps on at the window so the clerk sees they were previously uncancelled prior to overlap. Of course this works better when you are a customer at a small post office at which you are the entire line.




Front or box top (as defined by where addressee's address is placed) are the rules, but with a good relationship more than the top or front can be sent.




Front or top for both the tracking number and if needed zero tape meter. If there are so many stamps on the front/top that there is no room for the labels, placing them over stamps is not an issue for a modern postal history collector. In such cases, I keep the area near the blank space I leave just with lesser interest stamps, but the high denomination or interesting stamps far away. If I need the space, for my discount postage, I use it and don't mind having stamps covered.

Tomorrow I am mailing out a registered item. I will take a picture of it after the PO OIC places the registry label and zero (or small amount) label on the envelope. Since I will do that I will include a picture of a size 6 envelope with 8 four cent and 1 28 cent stamps to make 60 cents.




Indigo, what you showed is the largest possible multiple as it is a regular 100 subject pane as is sold by the USPS. One edge had the selvage and the inscriptions there "floated" meaning they were not in the same location from 100 subject pane to another.

In the past week or so I have been using my 4 cent Kansas Sunflower stamps with 15 each on #10 envelopes, prior it was 10 6 centers per. I mailed off one 3 oz envelope with 27 4 cent Kansas Sunflowers to pay the $1.08 postage. It was larger than a #10 but within the sizes of "envelopes" without being a "large envelope."

Stamps, 29, on a wrapper:



Moving to tags:


This is one of a few items I regret losing. It cycled for months on eBay as an unsold auction and when I finally rated it and placed a 'place holder bid' life got in the way and I did not get a chance to make my actual bid so it sold for one advance over opening.



The tags were stapled together and are again together with the same staples.

nice to receive such an envelop
when I do exchange stamps per post, I include some nice big stamps from Czech Rep. but sometimes I am disappointed, as I received from a trader a "basic envelop" with 1 definitive stamps
cheers

As a group the most valuable items for collectors are the postage tags created in Australia . They were on the mail coming from the Gold Fields . They are covered with lots of high value stamps and fought over at stamp auctions . As a group, prices are crazy.

I like personalizing my philatelic covers! This one is a collection of white men.

I abhor "philatelists" who send mail using definitive stamps. Why???