What's the deal with people using really old postage stamps?

[hajario]

@Darryl Lict

Supposedly, an absentee ballot mailed to Broward County was posted with an inverted Curtiss JN-4H “Jenny” aircraft stamp issued in 1918.

It turned out that the stamp was a fake. Fun story though.

As for the $700 for $1000 worth of stamps. I don’t get the confusion here. Either you can have $700 in cash now or $1000 in free postage over the next bunch of years. Sounds like a fair trade.

[Santos_L_Halper]

@Darryl Lict

You think that’s old. Supposedly, an absentee ballot mailed to Broward County was posted with an inverted Curtiss JN-4H “Jenny” aircraft stamp issued in 1918. It’s the most famous misprinted stamp and is supposedly worth $100,000. This story has Urban Legend written all over it, but Snopes has no comment on it. The article says that only 3 of the stamps are unaccounted for, so the story sounds even more suspicious. The ballot was locked away for 22 months.

The stamp turned out to be a fake.

[Colophon]

@Santos L Halper

The stamp turned out to be a fake.

The original news story said that the envelope had been placed into a box that, by law, had to be sealed for 22 months.

So I guess the law isn’t as strong as curiosity and greed?