Do You Throw Away Excess Used Duplicates

Having sorted through large amounts of rubbish in off-paper accumulations over the years (you know the ones a few enticing stamps shown in the picture at the top and hidden underneath are not just thousands of common duplicates but damaged ones at that) I take a hard line of throwing out all damaged stamps and giving all the good duplicates to Oxfam

Good for you, because its good for us.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Understand your position but this is material that I refuse to pay to get rid of them

The Holocaust Stamp Project at the Foxborough (Massachusetts) Regional Charter School wants your damaged stamps. They're collecting 11 million stamps, one for each life lost in the Holocaust. They've been working on this project since 2009 and have about 8.4 million so far.

Here's their webpage, with videos of what they've been doing with the stamps, news coverage they've received, and the address and details of how to send stamps to them. Damaged stamps are accepted.

http://www.foxboroughrcs.org/studen...amp-project/

Thank you, Philatarium, that's the project I was thinking of. I have many thousands - probably a couple pounds off paper - that I'll have off in the mail to them within the next week.

Artful, that's fantastic!

I think the final tally is around 3 lbs off paper, including nearly a pound of faulty items I'd been throwing in a bin for the last couple years. Should be close to 20,000 stamps or so; I'll have them in the mail no later than Monday. Not to get off topic too far here, but to relate that to the kids' Holocaust project, that's only equal to a about couple days' work at Auschwitz in 1944 or only two-thirds of the tally of a single massacre at Babi Yar.

Artful, that's a very sobering but important calculation you've done ...