Through the Mail Autograph Collectors

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If collecting by mail is one of your passions, this is your group! Share tips, experiences and current successful mailing addresses. But don't share home addresses unless you're sure the celebrity wants to receive mail there.
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International pre-paid postage.

by Mike David Dickson

Jan 2, 2022

Hi there all. First post. I am from Canada and have started to send pictures and letters out for signing. Up until; now I have been buying USA stamps and putting them on the reply envelope. Since it has been way too long to be able to travel to the US to pick up more I have been looking for a service where I can preprint postage here in Canada. I have tried the USPS and right now anyways the service gives me a notice of     We're sorry. An unexpected error has occurred. I won't be sending out many pictures so a paid service like stamps is way too expensive. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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    Joseph Tatrai

    Postage, both going to and coming back from, can get expensive.  Especially if you are sending to a lot of different destinations and between countries.

    I send for autographs lots of times and in every case for the reply postage here in the US they will not put pre-paid printed on the return envelopes.  They only will, and as was explained to me, can only apply actual postage stamps.

    You should be able to order as many stamps as you want on USPS.com and have them delivered to your house.  You will have to register an account with them to be able to do that but I don'tsee any problem.

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    Jan 2, 2022

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      JK

      Have you tried usps.com? You can order any kind of US stamps there. Not sure if they ship to Canada or the cost, but I assume they do.

      An alternative is to scour ebay for discount postage.  These are stamps bought up by dealers from old collections. They will be denominated so you'll have to calculate the postage and put enough stamps to cover the rate, but if you are patient you can get them at 50-60% of face value. If you are lucky you can find a seller in Canada.

      Avoid sheets/rolls of current stamps on ebay since they are often counterfeit.

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      Jan 2, 2022

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        Dan Morris

        As someone who is overseas as well, Joseph is correct in needing to use Global Forever stamps, 2 per C5 envelope and sizes below and more for A4 size and above.

        Unfortunately, due to massive backlogs USPS are not shipping stamps or items for normal mail to many countries right now and have not done so since November so this may take months before things return to normal

        Jan 2, 2022