Show Postage stamps not good For cash at PO's is a tradition to the effect that postage are as good as says Postmaster L don't bring them to the post office with the thought in mind of exchanging them for either gold or any other kind of Postmaster Bellon points out that there are many good reasons why postal regulations prohibit the exchange of postage stamps for These same regulations prohibit the exchange of stamps of one denomination for another except under extraordinary redemption of stamps by post offices is forbidden to forestall thefts of stamps and their conversion to says Postmaster whole purpose is to protect the government and the taxpayer against making burglaries of postal facilities Bellon assures us that nothing In the regulations is intended to imply that all who present stamps for conversion to cash are properly suspect of having stolen It is just that the regulations prohibiting conversion to cash must be absolute if it is to be effective Where odds and ends of stamps are the provision against receiving contaminated second-hand which the new purchaser would probably moisten with his The only extraordinary circumstance under which redemption of stamps is permitted is where the original transaction was inadvertently made in error by either A mistake on the part of the Postal Service may be corrected by the post office through exchanging stamps at full value for other A mistake made by the purchaser buying adhesive stamps of the wrong or stamped envelopes or postal cards of the wrong or may be corrected by exchanging stamps at full Information on regulations governing redemption of unserviceable and spoiled envelopes or unused and metered postage can be immediately obtained by calling at your local post |