Clipping My Brains Out

I confess that I'm a clipper. I try to clip on a regular basis, but this year I've been way behind (in stamping and everything else).

Today, I tackled a big stack of envelopes and torn corners. I won't keep a rounded torn-out corner -- I have an anal-retentive need to trim them neatly with scissors. It seems like I've been clipping and snipping all day, but really only a few hours.

I took a couple of (rough) photos to share.

Back in the Spring, I bought a BNAPS book. It came in one of those oversize cardboard mailers - 10x13, I think. No one can accuse Ian Kimmerly of not using postage stamps on his mailings. It was covered front and back. I cut away as much as possible and this remained:



I know you can't really see the stamps, but you get an idea of how many there were. I should have put a ruler in there for scale. Even after all the trimming, the pieces were too large to fit in my "ziplock baggie storage system" so I had to soak them. I now have them pressed in the patented "Rod-Freezer-Bag" method. But I digress.

Today's task was clipping and here are my ziplock bags:



There's a one-gallon bag for USA on the left and a one-gallon bag for Canada on the right. The smaller, sandwich-size bag above the Canada bag is for "everything else."

KirkS

This thread remind me of mail I received from irishjack last spring. There is 86 Canada #487. Some got damage.

I can't believe that parcel passed through the mail with only one third showing of each stamp used for postage.

Doug once the number amount is exposed its legit to do. I found this out by going to the post office and asked if its OK to put stamps on the back of the envelope, The clerk told me to do this once the cent/dollar amount is exposed its OK to overlap the stamps.
I receive and send mail this way all the time.

I wonder how many varieties there are in those 487's.

I was thinking more along the lines that it would be sternly prohibited in the U.S.

You're right, doug222! When I posted my Secret Santa gift the postal clerk admonished me for putting on too much postaqe and for writing "Santa" in the return address position. She told me that it was illegal and would be suspected of terrorism! Technically, she was correct. She sent it anyway.

Wow Jack!

Got many duplicates?