Re using stamps.

[Drewster]

Great.. Now I can't get this picture of Bolshie bent over a solitary candle in his kitchen, 4 jumpers on, 3 days stubble carefully trying to remove stamps from his letters out of my head...

Ohhhh Nooooo!!! Did you have too? I really don't want an image of Bolshie bent over doing anything with a candle..... Nooooooooooo!

[Grinder]

I know some people who receive sacks of used stamps collected for charity. They go through them and extract all the stamps that aren't post-marked and use them/sell them for near face-value. Then they sell on/ give away the rest to people who think there are still quantities of unpost-marked stamps in there. You can't trust anyone.