10) Where to buy US stamps?

[gloagy]

Hi everyone,

This is my first time trying to obtain a celebrity autograph through fan mail, and would like some advise on the self-addressed envelope part which is confusing me. I live in the UK and wish to send a request to a celebrity based in the US, I don't see a problem with sending a letter from UK to the US as I can do this through the Royal Mail, but the self addressed envelope part is throwing me. Reading up on recent posts here, the advice seems to be provide stamps to the person so they can send it back to myself, does this mean I send them the UK's own stamp/s or do I need to obtain a specific US stamp/s?

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but would like this to be clarified.

Thanks in advance

You will need to buy US stamps, somebody in the US cannot use UK stamps to send something to the UK.

In this instance you could look up global forever stamps on ebay, or similar.

Thanks a lot! Made clearer now

[Bmwman525]

Hi I would like to contact various celebrities in the USA...I live in the United Kingdom......I want to send the cost of postage ,so it is easy to get the autograph returned.
However at this time 11th November 2014......The Post Office over here does not do International Reply Coupons any more. I have asked what is available..and was told they have no idea.
Has anybody on here have any ides where or what I can do....
Kind Regards.......my email is gcsandom@hotmail.com

[fromuk2014]

Hi I would like to contact various celebrities in the USA...I live in the United Kingdom......I want to send the cost of postage ,so it is easy to get the autograph returned.
However at this time 11th November 2014......The Post Office over here does not do International Reply Coupons any more. I have asked what is available..and was told they have no idea.
Has anybody on here have any ides where or what I can do....
Kind Regards.......my email is gcsandom@hotmail.com

Global Forever stamps, ebay.

[Tanya-rosemeyer]

hey, I'd like to know which american stamps of which price I should send with my envelope... I was looking for it on Ebay and if I find them there maybe I buy them!

[kimmylee]

http://www.usps.com has all the price information, calculators etc.
This topic already has the stamps you need referenced several times in the last few pages so please take the time to read it.

[Tanya-rosemeyer]

http://www.usps.com has all the price information, calculators etc.
This topic already has the stamps you need referenced several times in the last few pages so please take the time to read it.

Thank you

[Gwynethdestiny]

You can find all that information on USPS. You can put in the country (yours), then the shape of the envelope, and the weight.

http://ircalc.usps.gov/

Then it will tell you how much that will cost. You would want the price at the bottom of the list---the least expensive one.

You need to go to your post office and have your "return" envelope, and photo, weighed---you are only weighing what is being returned to you. If you are sending photos then you weigh those too. If you are not sending a photo, but are hoping they will send one, then take a photo you have to weigh it so you can get an idea of how much the total return weight is.

The weight is in ounces on USPS so if you need to convert to grams you can use an online converter.

Here's an online converter:

http://bilet.pp.ru/calculator/convert_o ... _grams.php

Once you know the cost then you can buy your stamps.

[Tonyieta]

http://www.usps.com has all the price information, calculators etc.
This topic already has the stamps you need referenced several times in the last few pages so please take the time to read it.

[Jordan-Valentine]

Well i haven't been a member here very long but I know this and If you can get someone you trust to mail them to you, and you mail them the money, that is the way to go! USPS charges $6 to mail to Canada, AND I got charged another $8.63 at the border. $5 handling fee and the remainder in tax. So it cost me around $15 to get around $30 of stamps sent to me!!!!

Prior to that I would place my order on the phone and have them sent to a friend in the US and it would only cost me a dollar to get them mailed to me.

To send to the UK is probably more, maybe $8. You need to call them toll free and ask.

The same with getting stamps mailed from Royal Mail. It cost me as much to have them delivered as it does for a book of stamps. I have a friend I can ask but I hate to keep bothering them with it.

[Bri0626]

I used to have a US stamp shop here on the site, I only charged $1.50 for shipping worldwide. Unfortunately I had to shut it down. Too many people were dishonest, and it just got to be too much work. I stated that I would only accept PayPal for payments, but many people refused to do it that way and wanted to send me foreign currency. My small-town bank won't exchange foreign currency, so that would have done me no good. When I agreed to trade for stamps of another country, one person never sent mine but I sent theirs and so I was ripped off. And while I can't tell people what to do, I think it is rude to buy stamps from someone and then turn around to resell them for profit (which someone else did with the stamps I sent them). I really didn't do it for profit (if I made any money, it was about 20¢), I did it to help people and I just got stabbed in the back one too many times. I considered reopening my shop with stricter rules, but this site has gotten so out of hand that I barely ever check it anymore. A few times I had gotten about 5+ orders in one day, so it was just really hard to keep up with everyone as well.

I agree that it is much easier to have a trusted person send you stamps instead of buying them online and paying huge shipping charges. Unfortunately, many people are not trustworthy and it has made buying stamps on this site pretty difficult.