Classics Forever Arrived

Might modern paper have an impact? I'm thinking perhaps the ink is soaking in, and thus blurring, more than on the paper the BEP employed.

They did a cream background for the $2 inverted Jenny too - their reasoning was it was supposed to resemble aged paper.

Has anyone tried soaking these supposedly soakable stamps yet? The first report I heard was not encouraging.

I haven't tried soaking them as the cancelled stamp looks good left alone on its cover:

Wt1, because your avatar has a left-facing profile of Ben Franklin, it caught my eye. I notice that the shape of Franklin's nose is different on your modern cover. So, being curious, I compared the shape of the nose on the modern stamp to the nose my Scott #63s. Then it dawned on me to compare the nose of your cover stamp to the nose of the same stamp in the mint sheet shown earlier in this thread.

It looks to me like the Franklin's nose is somewhat pointed on your stamp, where it is rounded on all the others.

wt1: That is one GREAT looking digital cancel. They must have just changed out the ink jets recently @ the Brockton P&DC to get that sharp lettering & strike across the indicia. I would leave it on cover as well if I were so lucky to receive one.

I am wondering if anyone else had dings on the corners of the sheets from the shipping. I ordered 10 sheets and they were just put in a flat size priority envelope with cardboard. Too cheap to put the sheets in a glassine. They bounced around and 5 of the 10 had dings in the corner. Using them for postage.

Mine were undamaged. I received them over a week ago, and got an E-mail from the USPS yesterday that they had been shipped!

Peter

stampCat7,

Sad. As for myself. I am all done dealing with them. While not totally cost effective, I plan to purchase all of my 2016 requirements from MYSTIC at year end. It may not be the cheapest way, but is certainly the most convenient. They always seem to have what is needed for my MYSTIC Heirloom album.

Last year, I bought directly from the local post office or the USPS Fulfillment Center. Ended up costing WAY more as I bought sheets of 12 or 20 stamps when only one was needed! The problem is that we don't know what MYSTIC is going to put in their supplements until after the fsct. Just my two cents.

Jack Kelley

I've bought and used a lot of these sheets and I like them quite well. However, I had a "clueless clerk" episode at the post office today surrounding one. I went to the post office today to mail an APS Circuit. My small flat-rate box was franked with a current $6.65 priority mail stamp, a 1-cent Tiffany Lamp issue, and one "Classics Forever" stamp ($7.15 total), and I just needed to get tracking and a receipt that I mailed it. The clerk was tallying up my postage and kept peppering me with questions about the "Classics" stamp. "What's this one?" she asked. "I'ts a forever stamp" I replied. "A forty nine center, really???" the clerk asked back (Me: "Yep"). "You bought it from the post office?" she asks. "I ordered it from usps.com", I reply. Finally she asks another clerk next to her about it who confirms that it's a real stamp. Running into a "clueless clerk" is not the end of the world, of course, just something I found mildly humorous.

Do you guys think legitimate used copies of these will fetch a premium since they aren't available for general use?

They already sell for more than face value on ebay.

Joe