> While the price cut will be a boon for many consumers, it’s bad news for collectors and investors in so-called “Forever stamps,” the generic stamps valued at

> While the price cut will be a boon for many consumers, it’s bad news for collectors and investors in so-called “Forever stamps,” the generic stamps valued at whatever the current postage rate is no matter when they were purchased. Since Forever stamps were created in 2007, Americans have scooped them up as a way to hedge against future price hikes that seemed eternally inevitable. But that strategy has now backfired: As former Fortune columnist Allan Sloan put it in a 2014 column, “If stamp prices somehow were cut, millions of Forever holders, including me, would feel cheated.” Collectors don't care. They aren't buying for face value. "Investors" are idiots if they invested heavily in forever stamps. Stamps have generally tracked pace of inflation. You could put your money almost anywhere else and do as well or better. I buy forever stamps because it used to be so damned inconvenient to buy (and remember to add) 1 and 2 cent stamps every time they raised prices. The fact that they're lowering the price by 2 cents does not make me feel cheated.