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- Mon Aug 26, 2024 7:50 am
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Another delayed postcard
- Replies: 4
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Re: Another delayed postcard
Another one, obviously put back into the system - note the dealer's annotation next to the postmark. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gqzp2ejlzo
- Fri Aug 09, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Large postcard collection
- Replies: 5
- Views: 38025
Re: Large postcard collection
Sorry. I was misled by Maskinla12's post of the day before which brought the thread to the top of the list. Sadly, there's not much going on in this forum, even less than a few years ago, and the few recent posts, while worthy enough, are very niche.
- Thu Aug 08, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Large postcard collection
- Replies: 5
- Views: 38025
Re: Large postcard collection
You're probably wise not to consider selling the cards individually on eBay. Very time consuming scanning and listing them, then dealing with orders. Perhaps you won't know what prices to ask? Many sellers list starting prices that are close to or even in excess of those asked at fairs, others start...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Unnecessarily high postage costs?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 48888
Re: Unnecessarily high postage costs?
On Sunday evening I won a card on eBay for £15.99 plus £1.40 p & p. (I'd hesitated just a little about the price.)Two days ago, I had a message from the vendor - from whom I've brought before - that he'd been unable to get to the post office for a couple of days and that he was posting my card y...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 4:45 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Another delayed postcard
- Replies: 4
- Views: 53086
Re: Another delayed postcard
Today's Daily Telegraph has a letter from a Suffolk resident who has received four postcards with Margate 1905 and 1906 postmarks. Two were addressed his house, two to the same addressee in another house in the village that no longer exists.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 5:53 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Postcard Image Theft.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 57662
Re: Postcard Image Theft.
Some years ago I was caught out by the Australian vendor. There are others, who at least make it clear that they're offering copies. Nowadays my regular eBay search terms end with "postcard" which eliminates the copies. And when I don't, eBay somehow gives precedence to the real postcards,...
- Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:47 am
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Unnecessarily high postage costs?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 48888
Unnecessarily high postage costs?
Is it really necessary for vendors to send low and medium value cards by "signed for"? Royal Mail has now reverted ("post Lockdown") to requiring a signature on delivery, which can be inconvenient if I'm out. The sorting-office is a miserable three-mile trek from house with limit...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 2:10 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Variety of "old" QIIE stamps on eBay sendings
- Replies: 4
- Views: 42708
Re: Variety of "old" QIIE stamps on eBay sendings
An article in today's Metro newspaper tells of an eBay buyer being "stunned" when he received a parcel of sandpaper "plastered with stamps from up to 50 years ago" to make up the £1.25 cost. The purchaser wrongly observes that "stamps without barcodes are no longer valid, so...
- Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:35 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Variety of "old" QIIE stamps on eBay sendings
- Replies: 4
- Views: 42708
Re: Variety of "old" QIIE stamps on eBay sendings
Just received my replacement stamps from Royal Mail: 1p x 35 and 2p x 35, total value £1.05.
I still have some 30 or 40 high-value commems dating back over the decades to use on eBay sendings, though I would need to use several first-class stamps of yesteryear to put on a letter today.
I still have some 30 or 40 high-value commems dating back over the decades to use on eBay sendings, though I would need to use several first-class stamps of yesteryear to put on a letter today.
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 6:22 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: the hidden wiki
- Replies: 1
- Views: 40734
Re: the hidden wiki
What a load of badly-written rubbishy spam.
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 6:21 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Fifty Mysterious Postcards
- Replies: 3
- Views: 38853
Re: Fifty Mysterious Postcards
I have a couple of cards with shorthand messages, another with a message in an archaic form of Welsh and another with "mirror" handwriting, probably the work of a print compositor accustomed to reading beds of type used for printing publications.
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 3:10 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Very common cards but ...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 42461
Re: Very common cards but ...
It's happened again. Just received two cards whose fronts had been scanned for eBay, but not the backs. One had a contemporary annotation on the back noting that "x" indicated two key personalities at the event (whom I wouldn't have otherwise spotted), the other had a reasonable example of...
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 3:05 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Finding information about a Reliable Series postcard?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 33776
Re: Finding information about a Reliable Series postcard?
Googling will lead to snippets of information and, very happily, an on-line history, c1909, Byegone years of the West of Scotland Convalescent Seaside Homes, Dunoon.
- Mon Jun 05, 2023 4:50 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Variety of "old" QIIE stamps on eBay sendings
- Replies: 4
- Views: 42708
Re: Variety of "old" QIIE stamps on eBay sendings
Y es, Kevin, that is so.
I don't have many commems left and try to stock up with a few higher values, but most of the recent issues seem to be only for letters - and often with pretty terrible designs and subjects.
I don't have many commems left and try to stock up with a few higher values, but most of the recent issues seem to be only for letters - and often with pretty terrible designs and subjects.
- Thu May 18, 2023 6:10 pm
- Forum: Postcard Collecting
- Topic: Variety of "old" QIIE stamps on eBay sendings
- Replies: 4
- Views: 42708
Variety of "old" QIIE stamps on eBay sendings
As the extended deadline for using old-style QIIE stamps approaches (it's July 31), a noticeable proportion of envelopes contacting my eBay postcard purchases have a fine array of stamps from decades ago. Obviously vendors are using up their stocks (as I am). Today's arrival included two 8½d, two 15...