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    get an account free. You can order the usps flat rate and other envelopes forever stamps at a discount. for example. The $5.15 envelopes flat rate priority for $4.90 each and delivered to you for free. Save on postage (it never changes since forever rate) and gas.

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    i buy my stamps on ebay, just bought 200 forever stamps for .383 each
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    • #3
      I think that the best way to save on postage is to set up all of your bills to do electronic pay. I hardly use any stamps anymore. I pay almost everything online.
      Brian

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      • #4
        Originally posted by bjl584 View Post
        I think that the best way to save on postage is to set up all of your bills to do electronic pay. I hardly use any stamps anymore. I pay almost everything online.
        +1. End of story.

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          Originally posted by bjl584 View Post
          I think that the best way to save on postage is to set up all of your bills to do electronic pay. I hardly use any stamps anymore. I pay almost everything online.
          I don't even know what the price of a stamp currently is
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          • #6
            Originally posted by bjl584 View Post
            I think that the best way to save on postage is to set up all of your bills to do electronic pay. I hardly use any stamps anymore. I pay almost everything online.
            This is obviously true for any bill payment mail, but people do send out mail for other reasons. While I try to communicate by e-mail for business, I still am forced to send out mail for my practice.

            I never thought to buy stamps on e-bay. Nice one.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by FPipitone View Post
              This is obviously true for any bill payment mail, but people do send out mail for other reasons. While I try to communicate by e-mail for business, I still am forced to send out mail for my practice.

              I never thought to buy stamps on e-bay. Nice one.
              I do send some things out by snail mail, like birthday cards. But, the volume of what I send out is so low, that the price of stamps is negligible. Trying to save a few pennies really isn't worth it. At least not to me.
              Brian

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              • #8
                Originally posted by 97guns View Post
                i buy my stamps on ebay, just bought 200 forever stamps for .383 each
                Where did you find them at that price?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by 97guns View Post
                  i buy my stamps on ebay, just bought 200 forever stamps for .383 each
                  Great idea. I mentioned this to my office manager who orders our stamps. Next time around, we'll do that.
                  Steve

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by jw4848 View Post
                    Where did you find them at that price?
                    just got to bid on them, ebay offers a rebate thats good for 2% and your CC gives another 1 or 2%. heres the last lot i just won 200 stamps for $77.77 minus my 3% rebate it worked out to under .38 each.


                    $90 Face Value 200 US Forever Postage Stamps UNUSED! NO RESERVE! Great Deal! | eBay


                    i sell plants on ebay so i use a lot of stamps the 200 will probably last me a month.



                    Originally posted by disneysteve View Post
                    Great idea. I mentioned this to my office manager who orders our stamps. Next time around, we'll do that.

                    glad to finally contribute something worthwhile to the forum.
                    retired in 2009 at the age of 39 with less than 300K total net worth

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                    • #11
                      Stamps selling at something like 15% below face value? This reminds me that a man from the class ahead of me in high school went to federal prison for postage stamp forgery. As always, be careful about ebay purchases.
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