Guidelines for Donating Stamps

The stamp program accepts stamps of all issue dates and countries, both used and unused stamps, sheets of stamps, albums, boxed collections of stamps, envelopes, and postcards.

Be sure to include your email address or phone number. This allows the Stamp Team to acknowledge receipt of your package if you request it and to contact you with questions without incurring the expense of postage.

Please note we are only able to process and sell stamps and not other collectibles (for example, greeting cards). In order for the stamps to be salable, please follow these guidelines:

Foreign Stamps (excluding Canada)

If the stamp is still on the postcard or envelope, leave it on. There are collectors who like to receive a whole envelope or postcard with a foreign stamp. This is because of the markings and/or artwork that often are also present. Stamps already removed from the envelope or postcard are also welcome.

USA and Canada Stamps

If there is something special about the envelope, such as the words “First Day of Issue,” or some artwork, or special words added by the Post Office, then send us the entire envelope. There are collectors who like to receive a whole envelope or postcard with these special markings.

If you have stamps already off the envelope that are grouped in some way (as might happen when sending in someone’s stamp collection), leave them already grouped. This helps us in sorting.

Peelable Stamps

Please leave these on the envelope paper. If you try to peel them off of the paper, they stick to other stamps, and damage both.

Nonprofit and Presorted Mail Stamps

All stamps are acceptable, but we want to be financially effective. If you already have a group of stamps that includes a lot of nonprofit and/or presorted mail stamps, just leave them and send them to us. However, as you are assembling new shipments, we recommend you leave out the nonprofit ones and the presorted mail ones, so you are not paying postage for something of little value. The nonprofit stamps will have the words “NONPROFIT ORG” and the presorted mail stamps will have the word “PRESORTED” on them.