A Good Use For Your Old Stamper

This is somewhat postal related and it might help out a few people... I recently renewed my Notary and received whole a new stamper. There wasn't anything wrong with my old stamper, aside from the expired date on the die. Otherwise, the stamper itself was perfectly fine.



Well, nobody locally will sell me just the die. You have to buy a whole new stamper. So, $37 dollars later (it's probably cheaper online) I had my new notary stamp, and was now facing the prospect of having to throw out my old, but perfectly good stamper. A practice the places who sell them led me to believe is the norm...

So I did some looking online and found this website. For $11 delivered to my door I was able to have them make a new die for my old stamper from a design I created on my PC. They also have a creator tool on their site, as well as people who will create a design for you.

Less than a week later it arrived. The process of swapping the dies was self explanatory. The old die peeled right off, and the new, adhesive backed die stuck right on. It took less than a minute. Here's what I came up with. It's a return address label (info has been blocked to protect the innocent):



Here's a link to their die page:
http://www.holmesstamp.com/category...tegoryID=367

So don't throw away your old stamper! It can be resurrected and become useful again for minimal cost. I should also mention I am in no way affiliated with this site. There may be other places who do the same thing.