so you are sending some stamps to a collector...
now this is not from a Hipstamp sale but I thought worth a show and tell.
You are mailing stamps just sold to a collector. Perhaps, remote chance maybe? the buyer collects stamps, What do you do? Stick self adhesive over each other. Very thoughtful....Not. I cannot even give these to my free stamps for children collectors.
Oh and the lots received, no invoice included ... had to remember where I bought them to leave feedback. why did I bother I ask myself. Because cddstamps cares. :-) :-) Merry Christmas everyone
You are mailing stamps just sold to a collector. Perhaps, remote chance maybe? the buyer collects stamps, What do you do? Stick self adhesive over each other. Very thoughtful....Not. I cannot even give these to my free stamps for children collectors.
Oh and the lots received, no invoice included ... had to remember where I bought them to leave feedback. why did I bother I ask myself. Because cddstamps cares. :-) :-) Merry Christmas everyone
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Neither of these are self adhesive. If you soak it it will come right off. It's a 1292 from 1968, Rotary press stamp, panes of 400. The 3209h is printed from the same plates as the original 292, printed by Banknote Corporation of America, Lithograph.
Both are lick'em and stick'em.
I received an order from overseas with no invoice and a name I did not recognize on the return address. I checked my usual sites and couldn't find any record of the purchase. Finally, I remembered one site I rarely use, and found it there.
In case you are wondering how many sites there could possibly be to keep track of, I have bought from these:
HipStamp
Ebay
Ebay.de
Delcampe
Stamps2Go
Stamp Den
Colnect member sales
Tradera.se
plus probably others I can't recall off the top of my head.
It's just simple courtesy and good business practice to provide your customer with an invoice.
Storage? A recycle bin works great.
As a result, I no longer include an invoice with the orders I send out. When I first started doing this, one customer chastised me for not including at least the invoice number with the order. I always include a short note with each order and I just started including the invoice number within this note as well as offering to help anyone access their invoice on HipStamp. I have not had anymore sliced envelopes since then and have had not complaints about not receiving an actual printed invoice.
I know when I get an order it is helpful to know who and where it came from. Do I toss the invoice? Absolutely it goes into the shred pile. But at least they cared enough to send it to me.
Also, I'm with Michael on getting an order and having the self-adhesive stamps touching or so close that they cannot be separated. I just sit and shake my head! I do use self-adhesive stamps, but I lower them on the envelope, so the cancel doesn't usually mutilate them. Or worse, the seller doesn't use stamps at all and it's a label from a shipping company! That doesn't make sense to me.
I include a note including my name, mailing address and email address with each shipment. Along with thanking the buyer for making their purchase(s) from me, I also include in a separate paragraph the HipStamp invoice number and an offer to help them through the process of generating their own printed copy from HipStamp. This note is on 5 x 8 inch very light weight paper that can be folded without causing any bulk what-so-ever in the envelope. The stock card that I use for holding the stamps has a light paper-board backing that provides a little stiffening without causing the envelope from being too stiff to not allow bending. The stock card fits snugly within a #5 glassine envelope, which itself fits snugly within the mailing envelope. No tape needed to hold everything together without shifting within the envelope.
No complaints from anyone who buys from me for not including a printed invoice. For those who do mention my shipping method in their feedback, it is always positive. Oh, I did receive one negative feedback from a buyer this past year who purchased one stamp for 5 cents and then complained in the feedback that my $1.50 shipping charge was excessive for his one stamp. But that is a different can of worms.
Bob Woodbury, you will be happy to note that I did include an invoice with the Scott catalog that you just purchased from me. For orders that are contained in large envelopes or boxes, I do include a printed invoice only because no folding is involved.
..........Mum, Mum, Mum... ........... who is this present from..................... :-)
Then of course you have the other 1%.
Bob
The .1% . An elite club.
Bob
I stopped printing invoices when my printer failed. That was many months (years?) ago. Now I enclose a small piece of paper with “HipStamp Invoice [#]” and the date at the top. I list items only when there are a half dozen or fewer. Then “Thank you! Doug” All this is handwritten. I have a lot of repeat buyers.