Comments on: Forever Stamp - Why It Will Cost You Money

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:08:36 +0000

Hey, this is great. I’m traveling to the future tomorrow and this will save me lots of money!

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:32:55 +0000

I got the same idea as Bob as I read the story. Are having investments in forever stamps going to beat out savings accounts? I would think that a constant increase in stamp prices will drop demand for them.

When demand drops, the Post Office will recieve less money and have to make budget cuts or raise the cost of stamps. They will raise the cost of stamps, which will make these great investments.

By: Rog

Rog — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:13:32 +0000

What a crazy idea! Based on the number of letters my Wife and I mail every year, the cost of buying enough “Forever Stamps” would be around $700.00 assuming that we continued to pay our bills and send approximately the same number of letters and cards for say the next 15 years at least! What kind of stamp will peel off it’s slick,wax paper and then adhere to any envelope after 8,9 or 12 years of storage, much less 14 or 15 years (or perhaps, hopefully longer)? I have personally found some old two and three cent stamps that I attempted to use the last time the postal service raised it’s rates and had to cut them out of their placement on the backing with sizzors and glue them onto the envelope with “Elmers Glue All” and these stamps were less than 4 years old! How does one safely store approximately 1,667 “Forever Stamps” until they are finally used up? I could go on but whats the use? Once again someone has come up with yet another great idea to suck millions of “Front End” dollars into a system that already knows that the idea is doomed to failure and also knows that in a short period of time the majority of postal patrons will be back in line purchasing stamps at the going rate!

By: Pauline

Pauline — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:25:43 +0000

We’ve just moved to the forever type stamp in Canada. It comes with a warning that the program may not actually last forever, but this may just be to prevent hoarding.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:09:08 +0000

Has there been any word on the legality of secondary markets for the ‘Forever Stamp’? Will we be able to buy and sell them on eBay? If they are going to increase the price anually, it might not be a bad investment.

By: shraz

shraz — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:40:31 +0000

Stamps are still relatively cheap. I don’t like the idea of an increase every year but every 3-4 years, I don’t mind. They should just increase it to 50c and keep it for 10 years.

By: LAMoneyGuy

LAMoneyGuy — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:05:58 +0000

I probably send a couple of pieces of mail per year for personal purposes. Much more for business, of course. I suppose, I should load up on stamps for our wedding invites now, while we can.