I have found a bundle of these stamps, green printed and unused. I just
wondered what their purpose was and do they have any value for cashing
in somewhere? The face value is £1 per stamp.

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Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have found a bundle of these stamps, green printed and unused. I just
wondered what their purpose was and do they have any value for cashing
in somewhere? The face value is £1 per stamp.

They were (are?) for saving up towards your then quarterly bill - now
monthly for most of us.
Possibly a call to BT might see if they will still cash them for you.

On 26/11/2015 12:00, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
I have found a bundle of these stamps, green printed and unused. I just
wondered what their purpose was and do they have any value for cashing
in somewhere? The face value is £1 per stamp.


I imagine that people bought them as a way of saving up to pay their
telephone bill. I don't specifically remember them, but I'm pretty sure
that there had used to be something similar for television licences.

Ah - just found this old (2007) Money Saving Expert thread about BT
stamps. Don't know whether the answer given then still holds true!
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...d.php?t=483799
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I have found a bundle of these stamps, green printed and unused. I just wondered what
their purpose was and do they have any value for cashing in somewhere? The face value is
£1 per stamp.

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from 7 years ago

quote
Bt Phone Stamps
29th Aug 08 at 8:02 AM
#1


My mother recently went into a care home and whilst sorting out
her things I found £120 worth of old BT PHONE STAMPS If anyone
else has BT PHONE STAMPS here is part of my reply from BT and
the address to send them to .... ''''''''' I would like to inform
you that BT has cancelled the BT stamp as a payment method. As
you have £120 worth of BT stamp, I request you to send the stamp
to BT correspondence address so that, they will be able to adjust
the amount towards your future bills. Please find the address below:'''''
BT plc
Correspondence Centre
Durham
DH98 1BT.
ALTHOUGH BT DO NOT SAY....I WILL PROBABLY SEND THEM BY RECORDED
DELIVERY ....JUST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE...........

/quote

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michael adams

michael adams explained :
BT plc
Correspondence Centre
Durham
DH98 1BT.
ALTHOUGH BT DO NOT SAY....I WILL PROBABLY SEND THEM BY RECORDED
DELIVERY ....JUST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE...........

/quote

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michael adams

We have not had a BT line for 8 years which was probably when they were
bought, prior to then. Thanks I will chase them up.

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In message , Jonno
writes

I can't understand why
anyone would collect any saving stamps/savings schemes/gift tokens, be
they for tv licence, phone, christmas food or shopping.
They hark back to a time when no one had a bank account and buyers are
regularly ripped off by the sellers.

That is because you are probably relatively young. I recently retired
as local sub postmaster, and savings stamps were extremely popular
before being phased out. There is still a generation who want to
withdraw their pension in cash, then pay the bills weekly, so it is two
or three pounds, perhaps a fiver, off the telly, the rates, the phone,
the leccy and everything else, every week. Doubtless it is expensive
for the recipients, and a pain to administer, but that is how some
people have organised their lives since the beginning of time.
--
Graeme

In message , Jonno
writes
News scribbled

That is because you are probably relatively young. I recently retired
as local sub postmaster, and savings stamps were extremely popular
before being phased out.

I've seen people collected money from a PO and immediately separated it
into different purses. It was obvious it was more to do with their IQ
than any other reason. Pretty much the same fools who end up thousands
in debt.

Just the opposite. They are the people who are never in debt. They
have an old fashioned attitude. They pay the bills first, then spend
what is left. The attitude today is just spend first, then pay the
bills if there happens to be money left over.
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"News" wrote in message
...
In message , Jonno
writes

I can't understand why
anyone would collect any saving stamps/savings schemes/gift tokens, be
they for tv licence, phone, christmas food or shopping.
They hark back to a time when no one had a bank account and buyers are
regularly ripped off by the sellers.

That is because you are probably relatively young. I recently retired as
local sub postmaster, and savings stamps were extremely popular before
being phased out. There is still a generation who want to withdraw their
pension in cash, then pay the bills weekly, so it is two or three pounds,
perhaps a fiver, off the telly, the rates, the phone, the leccy and
everything else, every week. Doubtless it is expensive for the
recipients, and a pain to administer, but that is how some people have
organised their lives

Yes.

since the beginning of time.

Nope. Just for the last couple of centurys at most.

"Jonno" wrote in message ...

I can't understand why anyone would collect any saving stamps/savings
schemes/gift tokens, be they for tv licence, phone, christmas food or
shopping.

Well the fact of the matter is that many other people clearly think
differently to the way you do. And always have done ever since
the day you were born and will continue to do so for the rest
of your life. And the same goes for most people.

One interesting thing is the length of time it can take a person
to realise this fact and not be surprised by it; if in fact they
ever do.

In this case there are some people who are attracted to the various
physical aspects of sticking stamps in books, the stamps themselves,
maybe lining them all up neatly, completing a line or a book.
etc etc. Which in this case is accompanied by a sense of
satisfaction in keeping on top of the bills

One person who realised this, and profited greatly from this physical
aspect was the person who dreamed up Panini football stickers.


michael adams

....

News formulated the question :
Just the opposite. They are the people who are never in debt. They have an
old fashioned attitude. They pay the bills first, then spend what is left.
The attitude today is just spend first, then pay the bills if there happens
to be money left over.

I agree whole heartedly with that. My late partner did similar, some
money in different handbags, some in several different bank accounts -
a nightmare for her to administer. She was never in debt.

My method is to get things paid straight into one account and all the
bills are DD from that same account. I just run some software which
draws a graph of the balance in each of my accounts, so I know where I
am day to day financially.

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michael adams wrote :
In this case there are some people who are attracted to the various
physical aspects of sticking stamps in books, the stamps themselves,
maybe lining them all up neatly, completing a line or a book.
etc etc. Which in this case is accompanied by a sense of
satisfaction in keeping on top of the bills

I was attracted to it, when I was around 12 years of age. I would
collect the Green Stamps on behalf of my parents. I rapidly learned the
whole thing was a futile waste of time and never collected for any more
of those schemes.

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In message , Harry
Bloomfield writes

I would collect the Green Stamps on behalf of my parents. I rapidly
learned the whole thing was a futile waste of time and never collected
for any more of those schemes.

Interesting. Green Shield stamps were all the rage when I was a young
driver, and I saved the stamps. I still have, and use, some of the
stuff I bought using the stamps. A socket set, ramps and axle stands
come to mind. A 'barn' type tool box too, but that may have come from
fag coupons. Still have a set of mugs and four out of six drinking
glasses :-)
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In article ,
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
michael adams wrote :
In this case there are some people who are attracted to the various
physical aspects of sticking stamps in books, the stamps themselves,
maybe lining them all up neatly, completing a line or a book.
etc etc. Which in this case is accompanied by a sense of
satisfaction in keeping on top of the bills

I was attracted to it, when I was around 12 years of age. I would
collect the Green Stamps on behalf of my parents. I rapidly learned the
whole thing was a futile waste of time and never collected for any more
of those schemes.

Green Shield stamps were not the same. Effectively a discount on things
bought. Pretty well the same as Nectar points today. A different concept
from saving stamps for a utility, etc, bill.

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"Jonno" wrote in message ...
michael adams scribbled


"Jonno" wrote in message ...

I can't understand why anyone would collect any saving stamps/savings
schemes/gift tokens, be they for tv licence, phone, christmas food or
shopping.

Well the fact of the matter is that many other people clearly think
differently to the way you do. And always have done ever since
the day you were born and will continue to do so for the rest
of your life. And the same goes for most people.

One interesting thing is the length of time it can take a person
to realise this fact and not be surprised by it; if in fact they
ever do.

In this case there are some people who are attracted to the various
physical aspects of sticking stamps in books, the stamps themselves,
maybe lining them all up neatly, completing a line or a book.
etc etc. Which in this case is accompanied by a sense of
satisfaction in keeping on top of the bills

One person who realised this, and profited greatly from this physical
aspect was the person who dreamed up Panini football stickers.



How do you account for the death of stamp collecting? I know it's gone
the way of bubble gum cards because I have a bag of stamps which I
wanted to pass onto a/any charity. I've been unable to find a charity
that wants them.

You'd imagine stamps might be a good teaching aid for primary schools;
if their curiculums weren't so circumscribed maybe. Plus the possibility
of the children picking up diseases off them, I suppose.

At the bottom end nowadays "the young people" are more likely to collect
facebook friends than stamps. A quick Google shows Panini stickers have gone
the same way except for nostalgia buffs.

From memory there may have been a short lived investment boom in stamps
at some point in the last 30 years which collapsed rather suddenly.

Forgeries and new printing techniques may or may not have had something
to do with it.


michael adams

....

"Jonno" wrote in message ...

I have a bag of stamps which I
wanted to pass onto a/any charity. I've been unable to find a charity
that wants them.


http://www.wvs.org.uk/how-to-help/fu...FWgOwwodb6UBBA

http://www.rnib.org.uk/donations-and...-stamps-appeal

http://www.macmillan.org.uk/Fundrais...dbycancer.aspx

http://www.rspb.org.uk/joinandhelp/d...lp/stamps.aspx

http://www.hearingdogs.org.uk/donate...donate/stamps/



michael adams

....

On Friday, 27 November 2015 07:48:09 UTC, News wrote:
That is because you are probably relatively young. I recently retired
as local sub postmaster, and savings stamps were extremely popular
before being phased out. There is still a generation who want to
withdraw their pension in cash, then pay the bills weekly, so it is two
or three pounds, perhaps a fiver, off the telly, the rates, the phone,
the leccy and everything else, every week.

And savings stamps are a lot more portable than a row of jam-jars on the kitchen windowsill, and a lot harder to be raided in an 'emergency' (like needing more beer money).

Owain

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:37:10 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

michael adams wrote :
In this case there are some people who are attracted to the various
physical aspects of sticking stamps in books, the stamps themselves,
maybe lining them all up neatly, completing a line or a book.
etc etc.
I was attracted to it, when I was around 12 years of age. I would
collect the Green Stamps on behalf of my parents. I rapidly learned the
whole thing was a futile waste of time and never collected for any more
of those schemes.

They weren't quite the same as you could not go out and buy trading
stamps for x value and redeem them for that value later, they were a
bonus scheme given out with purchases. High rates of inflation helped
to finish them off as by the time you saved up enough for something
the small value they were worth had diminished.
The company saw what was going on an re branded itself Argos using the
stores that were previously available for savers to exchange the
stamps for goods.
The poor value bonus points idea now rests with various Debit/Charge
card schemes. For most people it takes ages to accumulate enough
points for anything decent. High mileage drivers on company business
who can use their own cards for fuel and accommodation and reclaim on
expenses are one group who can accumulate enough in a reasonable time
and acquire something that will genuinely be free them.
The Tax Man has never got around to arguing that points obtained'
that way are a benefit in kind either.

G.Harman

"Jonno" wrote in message ...
michael adams scribbled

What about the cards & albums that appear every time there's a football
or rugby world cup? I thought they were Panini.

Could well be. I don't really keep up.

Another thing that had a big impact on collecting were sites such
as eBay. As they take a lot of the fun out of collecting - the thrill
of the chase, finding bargains in unikely places etc. Now all
possible, if at all, sat in an archair.

From memory there may have been a short lived investment boom in stamps
at some point in the last 30 years which collapsed rather suddenly.


Spinks are still going. They have an auction on today.

Stanley Gibbons were always the d's bs in the stamp world.
There used to be postal auctions as well. Spinks were mainly
known for coins. Gibbons for their Stamp catalogues Spinks for their
their coin catalogues.

Another thing that may or may not influence prices is if whether
any billionaires or oligarchs take up stamp collecting as a hobby
maybe.


michael adams

....

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:36:43 +0000, wrote:


The company saw what was going on an re branded itself Argos using the
stores that were previously available for savers to exchange the
stamps for goods.

The Green Shield Co started Argos in order to have a sales outlet with
the same stock held for redeeming the stamps. With Argos shops
alongside Green Shield they shared the same store and product codes.
When interest in the stamps faded away the sales outlet became
dominant.

"michael adams" wrote in message
...

"Jonno" wrote in message
...
michael adams scribbled


"Jonno" wrote in message
...

I can't understand why anyone would collect any saving stamps/savings
schemes/gift tokens, be they for tv licence, phone, christmas food or
shopping.

Well the fact of the matter is that many other people clearly think
differently to the way you do. And always have done ever since
the day you were born and will continue to do so for the rest
of your life. And the same goes for most people.

One interesting thing is the length of time it can take a person
to realise this fact and not be surprised by it; if in fact they
ever do.

In this case there are some people who are attracted to the various
physical aspects of sticking stamps in books, the stamps themselves,
maybe lining them all up neatly, completing a line or a book.
etc etc. Which in this case is accompanied by a sense of
satisfaction in keeping on top of the bills

One person who realised this, and profited greatly from this physical
aspect was the person who dreamed up Panini football stickers.



How do you account for the death of stamp collecting? I know it's gone
the way of bubble gum cards because I have a bag of stamps which I
wanted to pass onto a/any charity. I've been unable to find a charity
that wants them.

You'd imagine stamps might be a good teaching aid for primary schools;
if their curiculums weren't so circumscribed maybe. Plus the possibility
of the children picking up diseases off them, I suppose.

At the bottom end nowadays "the young people" are more likely to collect
facebook friends than stamps. A quick Google shows Panini stickers have
gone
the same way except for nostalgia buffs.

From memory there may have been a short lived investment boom in stamps
at some point in the last 30 years which collapsed rather suddenly.

Forgeries and new printing techniques may or may not have had something
to do with it.

Its much more likely that hardly anyone uses them anymore.

I very rarely even use one a year now.

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:36:43 +0000, damduck-egg wrote:

The company saw what was going on an re branded itself Argos using the
stores that were previously available for savers to exchange the stamps
for goods.

And the buying power, buying network and transport infrastructure.

A pretty brilliant move, I always thought.

replying to Harry Bloomfield, S teve Panting wrote:
The use of these stamps was discontinued in 2000. Though you may be able to
redeem them through the Post Office, there are collectors that will pay more
than the face value for them. Some are worth 10 times the face value.
There were about 13 different issues.
You might try selling them on ebay or something.

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