In work yesterday my lovely colleague was sat cutting out postage stamps. I asked if she saving them for a charity and she said no they are to post my Christmas cards!!!!!!! She said if they haven't been franked then she always reuses them!

I was totally shocked as I've never done this - habve you?

With the risk of getting locked in the tower of London I am going to do this from now on as I do spend a fortune on stamps

What do you think?

i have never heard of that!!

Can you?!

Aslong as you dont do it like 20 times on one stamp and the stamp sits about 6cm above the envelope lol!

x

my MIL does it, what ever letters we get, she asks if she can cut the stamp off
i think it's a bit weird, but it does save £££'s as stamps are sooo expensive!

I have done it! Only because I really needed to post something and couldnt be bothered to go to the shop You have to take the stamp off properly then restick so its not obvious its reused.

Never thought to do this!
Although TBH I don't send much in the post anymore x
Will probs sent MIL and stepmum Xmas cards in the post this year as Flick likes to push things into the letterbox

ive never done it but know people do - hey, maybe this kind of scrimping is the key to being rich

and shell, i KNEW you would have done it (no offence hahaha)

i have done ths once as i was desperate to gget something posted but had no stamps

mariheartselijah wrote:

ive never done it but know people do - hey, maybe this kind of scrimping is the key to being rich

and shell, i KNEW you would have done it (no offence hahaha)

How did u know?! Lol
My sister is worse, she always does it. The other day she was sending a letter and opened her purse and actually had a whole load of cut out stamps

never even thought about doing that x

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My sister is worse, she always does it. The other
day she was sending a letter and opened her purse and actually had a
whole load of cut out stamps

hahahahaha thats like something my gran would do!

Its like the re use of wrapping paper and bows at
xmas... (Im not guilty of this btw.but my mum and nan are)

ohh i might try that lol

Char

I didnt even know you could do that lol

This has NEVER crossed my mind ... and tbh for the sake of the cost of a stamp I can think of things I'd rather spend my time doing

Lisa wrote:

This has NEVER crossed my mind ... and tbh for the sake of the cost of a stamp I can think of things I'd rather spend my time doing

I must be really tight because I'm deffo gonna do it. I use tonnes of stamps

Me too Pen, I spend about £20 a week on postage for my orders, I still wouldn't do it

You can actually buy on ebay i think, job lots of stamps, for pretty cheap, that have been 'professionally' removed from letters and things.

Doesn't anyone think its kinda wrong though?!

Cos obviously Royal Mail have to pay their staff, people moan they don't get a good service, but yet there are people happy to rip off Royal Mail by re using stamps...

Lisa wrote:

Doesn't anyone think its kinda wrong though?!

Cos obviously Royal Mail have to pay their staff, people moan they don't get a good service, but yet there are people happy to rip off Royal Mail by re using stamps...

Lisa, when my colleague explained to me what she was doing I was horrified and told her it was wrong. But when I went home and told my usually very law abiding do gooder oh he said if royal mail can't get their act together and ensure that stamps are franked then it's tough.
Also it wouldn't be difficult for royal mail to produce a system that made sure stamps couldn't be re used

I don't actually receive many letters with proper stamps on but if I do ands it's possible I will cut it out.
But I do feel bad now as we've had the same postman for over a year and he's really nice.

Can't say i have ever done it myself, its basically stealing when you think about it. You wouldnt go to a super market and think oh i have paid for one yoghurt so i dont need to pay for the next one

Lisa wrote:

Doesn't anyone think its kinda wrong though?!

Cos obviously Royal Mail have to pay their staff, people moan they don't get a good service, but yet there are people happy to rip off Royal Mail by re using stamps...

WELL SAID!!!!!

Royal Mail are a business and need to makes profits, they are making cutbacks as it is and the postmen/women and their families are the ones that are suffering (like my husband and us!)

On a lighter note, we've never had to buy stamps as Simon gets them as a christmas 'bonus' every year

How many does he get for his bonus Suse? Lol

Surely a company such as royal mail have the intelligence to stop this. Dont they????

I read in the paper last week that 2nd class and 1st class mail were delivered in the same timescale, so I see that as a bit of a con. Also when I think of the items that have been lost it adds up to a fair bit!

Like I said I've never done this..... Yet!

Kayleigh, I think he gets about 50 1st class stamps, we've got stamps that are 3 or maybe even 4 years old

Babymilly, they used to mark the stamps therefore making them useless and I agree they should still do it to stop people reusing them. With regard to 1st/2nd class, 1st class does get priority with how its dealt with, I also agree that post shouldnt get lost but it is a teeny percentage compared to the volume of items they deal with.

i dont actually think its that bad, on the rare occasion if you are able to reuse a stamp and need a stamp at that moment....go for it i do draw the line at buying them off ebay though, thats taking it to another level!