USPS.com Shipping Cost?

I'm just curious...what is the shipping cost when buying from USPS.com for, say, one book of 49 cent stamps?


-IBFS

I believe the shipping costs are the same whether buying from USA Philatelic Catalog, the USPS.COM website or their ebay website -- $1.30 for orders up to $50 in value; $1.85 for order over $50 in value.

HOWEVER, if you're looking for just a booklet or coil roll of stamps I believe you can pickup one of the USPS "Stamps Delivered to your Mailbox" brochures that are typically laid out on the table at most post offices. If you order from there, I believe they do waive the shipping charge for straight postage (no philatelic order or choice in the stamps they send).

That is why I would order from USPS.com. I would get to choose stamps other than the same boring ones I get at the post office. I guess the shipping price is what you pay for that privilege.

True, but most people have, or choose to drive to their closest post office and that costs money too.

Not many philatelic windows still open at post offices and so many clerks have little patience with collectors seeking commemoratives or special issue stamps and their inventories are slim.

I think it is worth the shipping price to have a selection of all stamps currently on sale by the USPS and to have those bought delivered to my mailbox.

Don