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Posted: **Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:01 pm**

I have a lot of envelopes that my autographs came back in & the stamps have not been marked by the post office & I want to reuse them.. So I was wondering how you do it..I didn't think you could but apparently you can! Do you just cut them out & tape them on or something like that? Please help if you can.. I want to try & save a little bit of money! Thanks :]

Posted: **Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:32 am**

You can try peeling them off or I guess you could cut and paste.

Posted: **Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:52 am**

Hey,

I peel them off as carefully as possible, and then tape the back on. Do not put tape over the front or the post office will not mail your letter.

Posted: **Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:21 am**

cut around them and then soak them in Hot Water. It will seperate the adhesive on the back of the stamp from the envelope. Then just place them on a paper towel and let them dry out. when you want to reuse them again just put a little glue on the back.

Posted: **Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:49 am**

whosurdaddy wrote:cut around them and then soak them in Hot Water. It will seperate the adhesive on the back of the stamp from the envelope. Then just place them on a paper towel and let them dry out. when you want to reuse them again just put a little glue on the back.

WOW how did you know that

Posted: **Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:00 am**

thanks for all the advice everybody! but everytime i try & peel them off they keep ripping :[ & im too lazy to soak them in hot water, although that was a very good idea! im just going to have to keep buying new stamps..oh well

Posted: **Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:00 am**

yeah just peel it off slowly. thats what i do. my dad just puts in on water and it comes off but it gets wrinkled.

Posted: **Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:59 pm**

ChattyGirl247 wrote:
whosurdaddy wrote:cut around them and then soak them in Hot Water. It will seperate the adhesive on the back of the stamp from the envelope. Then just place them on a paper towel and let them dry out. when you want to reuse them again just put a little glue on the back.
WOW how did you know that

I've been doing it for quite a few years. About 8-9 years ago I discovered/invented a way to reuse cancelled stamps as well. Please don't ask I won't give out that info.

Posted: **Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:26 pm**

I just cut it out of the envelope and throw it in a little bowl with some hot water in it. Three minutes later your stamp will be flowing seperately from the envelope

Very fast and no harm done to it

Then just take it out and let it dry then glue it on to your new envelope.

Fatima xxx

Posted: **Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:50 pm**

Lucas42 wrote:I tried it once and my letter never came back! Because I live in Australia and quite often get uncancelled US stamps (they always stamp them here LOL, but in the US they seem slack, and use biro!) I thought I'd try sending some back to the US, so I could use them on a SASE instead of sending an IRC. I just sent the same envelope as it had no postage or stamp marks on it, and I never got it back! The person at the other end said they sent it, so I'm not sure what happened! I have had of letters apparently lots before so maybe it was just a coincidence it happened to that one too, or maybe they busted me!

lol! i bet that will happen to me, because i dont have the best luck in the world so if i tried to glue them back on they would probably fall off of something or they would accept my letter! & that would be really bad! i might have to try soaking them in water sometime though..hopefully it will work for me!

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