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Reusing Unfranked stamps

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LittleMissRayofHope · 07/04/2015 09:24

If I get a letter and the stamp hasn't been franked by RM I peel it off and keep it. I then use it the next time I post a letter.

AIBU? Friend thinks I am. She said I'm basically stealing from RM. I guess I can see her POV.

Thought I would ask here!

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Pseudonym99 · 31/03/2017 17:09

A stamp is proof you have paid to use the postal system. You are not paying for a stamp, you are paying to send a letter to someone. Therefore if you reuse a stamp, you are committed fraud by pretending to have paid for something when you haven't. If you put a letter in a postbox with no stamp on it, that would be the lesser crime of theft.

MatildaTheCat · 31/03/2017 17:11

I have taken this to a new level. I check for franking and if it's clean I peel it off using a very sharp knife and store it in a little pot I keep for the purpose alongside a Pritt stick glue.

It makes me happy. At Christmas I can harvest enough to keep me going for months.

DontTouchTheMoustache · 31/03/2017 17:26

The nay sayers haven't deterred me, my life of crime continues.
You don't choose thug life.

Didyoumeantobesorude1 · 31/03/2017 17:46

This is just immoral. Basically you are saying that because you're not seen doing it, it's ok. Same attitude that thinks it's ok to loot goods from shops during a riot.

monkeyfacegrace · 31/03/2017 17:52

I am morally bankrupt. Love the thrill of an unfranked stamp arriving.

DontTouchTheMoustache · 31/03/2017 17:52

Yes reusing a stamp is EXACTLY THE SAME as looting.

Isthereanybodythere · 31/03/2017 17:56

My aunty does this and has had a card with handling fee and postage cost billed to her for 'fraudulently' re-using a stamp.

I accidently attached fresh stamp to wrong envelope, peeled it off and attached it to correct one. The recipient of my letter had to pay handling fee and postage costs because apparently I had re used a stamp. I hadn't it just had the remnants of 'wrong envelope' on it, that some eagle eyed jobs worth had spotted.

ShatnersBassoon · 31/03/2017 17:59

To say it's as bad as looting is true, as long as the looted goods value 65p

Obviously it's at the 'waste of police time' end of the criminal scale, but it's so bloody miserly I can't imagine why the fuck anyone would want to do it. Just pay to get your letter from A to B and do everyone a favour.

FinallyHere · 31/03/2017 18:01

Can,t remember the last time I had to post anything misses point of thread

Aeroflotgirl · 31/03/2017 18:04

Go for it, stamps cost an arm and a leg anyway. So many pious people on here.

Aeroflotgirl · 31/03/2017 18:04

Same as I always gave my day travel card to people when I did not need it anymore.

ShatnersBassoon · 31/03/2017 18:05

Go for it, stamps cost an arm and a leg anyway.

I wonder why that might be...

Somerville · 31/03/2017 18:07

Those saying they do it because the cost of stamps has risen so much or the queues in th post office are so long... don't you understand that if everyone paid for the service they were using then the price of stamps wouldn't need to rise so fast and there would be more money to hire staff at Royal Mail??

Aeroflotgirl · 31/03/2017 18:07

Just the same as everything else, inflation! I don't think a lot of people do it anyway.

ShatnersBassoon · 31/03/2017 18:07

Same as I always gave my day travel card to people when I did not need it anymore.

And I wonder why public transport seems to provide such poor value for money...

Aeroflotgirl · 31/03/2017 18:08

Well shatners, I paid for it, why waste it. God there are some saints on here, there really are.

Aeroflotgirl · 31/03/2017 18:09

Btw, I have not been to London in years, I always thought I was doing someone a favour, obviously not then!

Iloveantiques · 31/03/2017 18:11

I can't remember the last time I got a letter with a stamp on it

khajiit13 · 31/03/2017 18:12

It is stealing. I'd do the same.

DevelopingDetritus · 31/03/2017 18:14

I can harvest enough That sounds quite sinister

Haven't they made it more difficult now. If you peel one off it tears more easily. There's like a cut out in them now. I have done the soaking them in water in the past, to get it off the envelope.

RememberToSmile1980 · 31/03/2017 18:15

My dad does this! I however have never! Stamps are not cheap though so I can see why people do it.

SantinoRice · 31/03/2017 18:21

Why did you resurrect this thread anitacrawley1?

ThoraGruntwhistle · 31/03/2017 18:22

I have done. Not that it's a regular occurrence, I usually have a book of stamps in my purse for when I need one. But if I noticed an unfranked one, I'd probably do it again.

Valeriemalorie · 31/03/2017 18:24

My sister sent us birthday cards with stamps that had been reused and we had to pay a handling charge. So annoying! The fee was more than the cost of the card.

Aeroflotgirl · 31/03/2017 18:44

Oh wow Valerie, how did they know they have been reused if they are not franked.

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