To: DeaconBenjamin
Given these stamps will always be completely liquid, the only way an investor can lose money on forever stamps is if the price of postage goes down. Not really. The USPS could simply refuse to honor the Forever stamp in the future.
To: Skepolitic
They’d probably change the color of the stamps, and demand “Postage Due.”
To: Skepolitic; muawiyah
USPS rates have increased slower than inflation over the past 30 years. They would be a bad investment even if liquid and honored.
As some have pointed out, they aren’t even liquid. I tried to cash in some a while ago and they wouldn’t take them.
19 posted on
01/01/2011 9:46:17 AM PST by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Skepolitic
Not really. The USPS could simply refuse to honor the Forever stamp in the future. Or decree that the "Forever" stamp is only worth 45 cents when they hike rates again, and force people to buy 1 cent or 5 cent stamps to make up the rate hike.
24 posted on
01/01/2011 10:00:16 AM PST by
PapaBear3625
("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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