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The USPS OIG blog post ... only 278 comments so far ... add yours!
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I need to re-calm-down before I add my 2c.
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I read through the comments that followed the BLOG and I noticed that the official making replies mentioned the August 31 date for some sort of explanation/action by the USPS.
Anyone know if on that date some sort of official pronouncement was made by the USPS regarding the sheets?
Bruce
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I could not find a response via search, et al.
Q/ Perhaps the check is in the mail?
Q/ Perhaps the steady flow of incoming comments has led them to wait a bit?
Cheers,
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I posted my opinion last month.
To wit:
At this point the most logical course of action is to send all Jenny panes to the cave and open them up to find the upright issues. Then offer Jenny panes for sale from the cave as a one-time offer that will include all of the upright panes. Let buyers place orders for as many as they want. When all of the orders are in, add enough inverted panes to fill all of the orders. Use random number software to assign which pane goes with which order.
Once you are finished, DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN! And stop issuing so many commemoratives and imperforate press sheets! I am an active collector and finally gave up and stopped collecting after 12-31-14. I can't get my kids interested in collecting because they are likely to see fewer than 10% of issued stamps on items in our mailbox.
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"DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN"
that bears repeating
"DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN"
good.
hope they're listening, but doubtful they are or care. They have their own mindset that doesn't really see philately in its own light. Trying to replicate the mint's quarter success in stamps was harebrained. quarters, by their nature, get used and re-used. Stamps, by their nature, are, well, unless the machine misses....
Their worst sin is abandoning active, dedicated collectors in vain efforts to attact new ones. Each new antic loses more, while bring few new ones in.
It would be useful if they had a postal historian and couple of US collectors near the top of the chain to be able to tell the PMG's head of marketing: "don't do that, Jack, you're only gonna piss 'em off."
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I agree that the USPS should never do it again.
They could have made it fun if they had printed maybe 50,000 of the upright sheets, and interspersed that with the inverted sheets. That would have brought some excitement among collectors, although the $12 price with would limit many from buying multiple sheets.
Unfortunately their plan of just the 100 upright sheets was poorly executed in itself as evidenced by the number sitting in a locker in Kansas City and how the sheets were not distributed as they were supposed to be.
I continue to buy the sheets for postage. The stamps are small and don't take up much room on packages and large envelopes, and I do mail alot of priority and first class mail packages.
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The Office of Inspector General of the United States Postal Service has blogged on The Jenny (contrivance, charade, catastrophe, calamity).
The USPS OIG blog post ... only 278 comments so far ... add yours!
Linn's pointer
I need to re-calm-down before I add my 2c.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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08:47:39am
re: USPS OIG blogs on The Jenny ... your comments welcome
I read through the comments that followed the BLOG and I noticed that the official making replies mentioned the August 31 date for some sort of explanation/action by the USPS.
Anyone know if on that date some sort of official pronouncement was made by the USPS regarding the sheets?
Bruce
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re: USPS OIG blogs on The Jenny ... your comments welcome
I could not find a response via search, et al.
Q/ Perhaps the check is in the mail?
Q/ Perhaps the steady flow of incoming comments has led them to wait a bit?
Cheers,
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re: USPS OIG blogs on The Jenny ... your comments welcome
I posted my opinion last month.
To wit:
At this point the most logical course of action is to send all Jenny panes to the cave and open them up to find the upright issues. Then offer Jenny panes for sale from the cave as a one-time offer that will include all of the upright panes. Let buyers place orders for as many as they want. When all of the orders are in, add enough inverted panes to fill all of the orders. Use random number software to assign which pane goes with which order.
Once you are finished, DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN! And stop issuing so many commemoratives and imperforate press sheets! I am an active collector and finally gave up and stopped collecting after 12-31-14. I can't get my kids interested in collecting because they are likely to see fewer than 10% of issued stamps on items in our mailbox.
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re: USPS OIG blogs on The Jenny ... your comments welcome
"DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN"
that bears repeating
"DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN"
good.
hope they're listening, but doubtful they are or care. They have their own mindset that doesn't really see philately in its own light. Trying to replicate the mint's quarter success in stamps was harebrained. quarters, by their nature, get used and re-used. Stamps, by their nature, are, well, unless the machine misses....
Their worst sin is abandoning active, dedicated collectors in vain efforts to attact new ones. Each new antic loses more, while bring few new ones in.
It would be useful if they had a postal historian and couple of US collectors near the top of the chain to be able to tell the PMG's head of marketing: "don't do that, Jack, you're only gonna piss 'em off."
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12:33:58pm
re: USPS OIG blogs on The Jenny ... your comments welcome
I agree that the USPS should never do it again.
They could have made it fun if they had printed maybe 50,000 of the upright sheets, and interspersed that with the inverted sheets. That would have brought some excitement among collectors, although the $12 price with would limit many from buying multiple sheets.
Unfortunately their plan of just the 100 upright sheets was poorly executed in itself as evidenced by the number sitting in a locker in Kansas City and how the sheets were not distributed as they were supposed to be.
I continue to buy the sheets for postage. The stamps are small and don't take up much room on packages and large envelopes, and I do mail alot of priority and first class mail packages.
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