Donating Stamps
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Firstly - a big "Thank you" to everyone who has sent in used stamps in the past.
We currently have such a large stock of the untrimmed stamps that our gallant volunteer, George Longhurst, has kindly taken on the task of trimming them down to saleable size. George, a retired Police Officer, has been coming into the Wessex Heartbeat offices weekly in order to help us reduce our stamp mountain. If anyone else out there has a few hours of spare time to help, or would like to take a bag to trim at home, at work or at a social gathering, we're sure that George would be grateful!
We welcome all stamps, on or off paper as long as the stamp is not damaged. If possible, stamps on paper should have no more than 5mm of single thickness border around them. Less than this is acceptable but please do not trim them so close that the perforations are damaged. Please avoid double thickness paper (e.g. front and back faces of the envelope). Damaged stamps are worthless.
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It would really help us if you could pre-sort donated stamps into JUST 2 basic types:
(a) * Great Britain (incl. regional and offshore islands e.g. Jersey, IOM, etc)
(b) * Foreign (non GB) (worth MUCH MORE to us!!) - obviously if your donations are from just one foreign country, please mark the envelope accordingly.
This will save us a significant amount of time, however it is something we can do in-house.
Please don't send us complete envelopes or excessive paper. Also please ensure that adequate postage is applied to your parcel (the Post Office charge us £1 plus the underpaid dues) otherwise we may not receive the delivery!
For our postal address to send used stamps to, please visit our contact us page.
