Stamps On Incoming Package Poll

Last time at post office the post master told me I always have nice stamps on my mail and she know soneone who collect them if I don't want them...this is very scarry

It does not bother me.

I voted I prefer with stamps , as I lost only 2 packages a year and it's always from ebay purchases with only my as bidder, obviously the sellers don't reach their expectations and keep their stuff. ebay always refunded

I always use stamps to mail items, but rarely ever use "discount" postage or older issues. Many collectors have expressed the desire for modern issues as they are so hard to obtain postally used.
Most issues from the 1940's to 1980's/90's are very easy to obtain used from philatelic sources. I also don't like to use older issues since most of what I mail is overseas and higher rates need higher face value stamps. It's a wee difficult to find space on a cover to place enough 10c., 13c. or even 20c. stamps on a 6" x 9" envelope that needs $2.34 or $3.33 to mail.
Slathering a cover with assorted older stamps to some countries is also a possible dead give away to a shipment's contents. It might be fine to the UK, but I wouldn't do that for something shipped to India or Russia.

Dealers and auction houses in England often cover envelopes with old stamps - they may draw a sigh or laughter from the postman but they always arrive safely. I try to use up old stamps for posting ebay lots, but I am now getting to the really low value stuff, which, as Battlestamps says, creates space problems on envelopes.

I prefer the stamps. As I focus my collection on a specific country, and I purchase the majority of material from dealers in that country, it is a bonus for me to get the modern stuff on cover.

I prefer stamps. If I am getting a package from a stamp company, the return address will give any thief a clue. If from an individual, stamps are the norm. So I have few worries about my package disappearing. I think printed labels are a "rip off".

I get stuff in flat mailers often enough and it seems to me the ones slathered with stamps get treated better, not beat up. Your mileage may vary.

I like to see the old stamps used. I always use what I have. I'm not sure I believe it prompts package theft. That seems a little paranoid.

I prefer stamps (I save stamps from my incoming mail and donate them every year to the youth table at the Garfield-Perry March Party). I am somewhat surprised at how few ebay sellers and others use current stamps on mail - it's either discount postage or labels. Of course, both of those are cheaper than buying current issues, but we're stamp collectors after all. If we don't use them.....

Never had problem receiving stamp purchases franked with high face dollar stamps. The only problem I have had is sending out old postage with the Post Office.

I usually ask for stamps to be used, at times I have been pleasantly surprised especially with purchases from South Africa where I have received envelopes franked with a mixture of South African and South African homeland stamps

I prefer stamps, too. All of my envelopes from stamp dealers do not have a company name on it, just the name of the person. So, no worries. With the used stamps, my kids use them to trade for other stamps with their penpals in foreign countries.

I enjoy receiving packages with older and commemorative stamps as postage.

Sometimes there will be a priority mail label and the stamps are put on the package and not cancelled.

However, recently a package arrived in the fashion described above but a pen had swirled and scribbled all of the unfranked extras. This never happened before and my guess is someone in the post office was being naughty as I find it hard to believe the sender would do that.

Anyone have this happen to them?

Oh and have never experienced package theft in a great many deliveries, knock on wood.

I've never lost a package that had stamps on them. But over the past 40 years of receiving philatelic mail/packages, I have had stamps swiped off the mail/package twice.

Once it was off a gift FDC from a vendor. One of the secretaries confessed and returned the setenant block she had yanked off the cover.

The other was a package, where some nicely hand-canceled souvenir sheets were carefully removed from the packaging ("normal" stamps left on package). It was clear, based on the labels/marking on the package, that they were removed sometime between the package being handed over to the post office and the time it was delivered. The USPS station manager agreed, but denied any postal worker could have done it as they would be fired. I told her I wasn't interested in getting anybody in trouble, but did want the stamps back. Of course, I never heard back from her. One of the canceled S/S's swiped was a double transfer EFO of the 1994 100th anniversary of the BEP.