A Forever stamp in 2022 costs 60 cents to mail a 1st class letter or bill. I am very fortunate because even before the pandemic hit, I wore a mask when I had to go to the doctors or get medicine and I ordered my groceries online to be delivered to my home. It saved me from driving across town, going through the store, checking out, loading them in my car, loading them out of my car, etc.
When I was at a grocery called Kroger, I asked the cashier to give me one book of stamps. 20 x $.60 was $12.00. I ran out. So, while I had some groceries in my Walmart cart I thought I'd see if I can add a couple of books or a roll of stamps and have it delivered with my groceries. No. BUT, there are a host of re-sellers selling them on Walmart.com, Facebook Marketplace, Ebay and Amazon.
One of the first pages that popped up was 100 2018 US Flag stamps for only $24.99. They said you could use them for "crafting". Which means they think that skirts by the laws of selling stolen or counterfeit stamps at a lower price than our own Post Office can sell them for. This angered me, yet there is little you can do to stop it.
They are making $24.99, you are saving $35.01 and the US Post Office is losing $60 on each and every sale. I looked at all the ads on Walmart.com and there were over a dozen re-sellers trying to get you to buy from them. $24.99, $35.00, etc.
I looked on Amazon, Ebay and Facebook marketplace. You would think the government would order all these companies to refuse to host any ad where they sold them for less than $.60 cents each. With that being given, are those stamps even real? Counterfeit?
If you read some of the comments, buyers say "They worked for me!". One user was upset they bought the stamps and was charged sales tax on his purchase!
Even a lot of the comments under these Forever Postage stamps are faked. One user wrote "thanks for the stand, it arrived quickly", someone else wrote that they were happy they got their cleaner. Nothing to do with the actual item and legitimate reviews.
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