Hello JOE!

** On Tuesday 17.11.20 - 06:20, JOE MACKEY wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

 JM> ... I soon found the post office didn't always cancel every
 JM> stamp.    These I would tear off and take home.  Soak in water a while
 JM> and the stamp would peel off, lay it aside to dry and later with a dab of
 JM> glue I would reuse it.
 JM>    This was when almost all correspondence was snail mail.
 JM>    I didn't buy stamps for years.  :)

I did the same thing. I studied the envelope of every letter  
that arrived in the mail. If there was no cancellation, the  
stamp was fair game for reuse.

Sometimes the cancellation would only catch the smallest part  
of the "frame" of a stamp. No matter. I would just cut off  
that part and reuse. As long as no part of the monetary  
declaration of the stamp was modified/cut, it was good to go.

That way we had a stash of stamps we could always rely on.

Nowadays, the envelopes are covered so much with their marking  
inks that even the envelope can be reused if you wanted to.



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