Does anyone know if the April battery recycling offer had an expiration date of April 30 or May 2 because if it was April 30 I think I will call Staples to see if they’ll give me points for the battery I recycled on May 2 since there may have been a new offer that supposedly expired May 2 and I didn’t get my points. I think I will call Monday to Staples rewards Customer Service and just see if they’ll give me credit for my May 2 recycling. Nothing to lose and $2.50 to gain…

@c3 said in PSA: Coming attractions - Staples will charge $2.99 fee to recycle batteries per transaction starting Sunday, 5/3/26. Recycle your montly alkaline battery now to avoid the fee.:

I got points for recycling “other tech” today.

What “other tech” did you recycle today?

@mistercheap said in PSA: Coming attractions - Staples will charge $2.99 fee to recycle batteries per transaction starting Sunday, 5/3/26. Recycle your montly alkaline battery now to avoid the fee.:

@c3 said in PSA: Coming attractions - Staples will charge $2.99 fee to recycle batteries per transaction starting Sunday, 5/3/26. Recycle your montly alkaline battery now to avoid the fee.:

The current offer says “Expires 5/2/26”. Why bother with this month at all, for only 2 days? Strange.

Thinking the same thing, if you recycled in April, the April period runs to 5/2 and you may not get $2.50 on a battery turn in today if you already did it for April. @MrVietnam take note.

With the price of gas and my staples store being 5-6 miles away, it will cost me $2+ in gas just to go there. Not going to even risk it, at best I break even if I get the $2.50 for today with gas at $4.49 around here.

You are right, Mistercheap. I recycled a battery on April 2 and got my $2.50 and I went this morning and recycled another battery on May 2, but I didn’t get any points for that. I did get the normal 3000 points for six recycled ink cartridges though, so I guess you only need to run out and do the deal if you didn’t recycle a battery in April otherwise you’re wasting your gas and time.

I guess we will all find out on Sunday, but I plan on recycling my battery tomorrow to get my $2.50 in points while I still can. It is probably just a matter of time before they scrap the recycling program entirely, including ink recycling… Good thing I only have enough cartridges for ink recycling through the end of the year.

I guess I will recycle a battery on both of my accounts tomorrow, so I can recycle one last time without having to pay a fee because it doesn’t make much sense to recycle a battery and make $2.50 in points when you have to pay $2.99 as a fee to recycle that one battery.

Has anyone else seen the new policy? It starts next month. Batteries, printers and monitors in select states will now have a charge to recycle them. My state is exempt from the printers and monitors but batteries will be $2.99 per transaction. I predict a lot of batteries being thrown away in the trash can outside the store.

Evidently the upcoming change was posted on Zipline, which is Staples’ internal messaging system, which the general public can’t access.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Staples/comments/1sw9aa5/charge_to_recycle_batteries/

If anyone is interested doing this deal I would do it today or tomorrow because I believe on May 1 Sam’s Club is raising their membership fees from $50 to $60, so if you get it now it’ll be a seven dollar money maker.

Valid 3/17 to 6/30/26 only on physical receipts

No go at Vons. There is only a 25 cent rebate bring offered in these parts.

@mrvietnam said in PSA: U.S. Postal Service seeks hike in price of first-class mail stamps to 82 cents in July:

Can the USPS really tell if postage stamps are fake? I bought a ton of stamps at Office Depot with rewards. One time I mailed a package covered with forever stamps and the clerk asked me where I got all those stamps. I said “Office Depot” and that was the end of it. I am glad he didn’t require proof because I didn’t keep my receipts.

Does the USPS check for fake stamps?

Yes, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) can and does detect counterfeit stamps, primarily through automated scanning technology that checks for specific ultraviolet (UV) light-sensitive phosphors. The Postal Inspection Service uses these methods to identify fake stamps and counterfeit package labels during mail processing.

How to tell if forever stamps are fake?

In general, some things to look out for include blurry or fuzzy text and design details, differences in color, die cuts that aren’t quite right, and more.

@yoregano said in PSA: U.S. Postal Service seeks hike in price of first-class mail stamps to 82 cents in July:

@marvomatic said in PSA: U.S. Postal Service seeks hike in price of first-class mail stamps to 82 cents in July:

@yoregano Please make sure its USPS stamps are real! There are a lot of stamps sold that are illegal, sold for up to 50%. The biggest discount that the stamps are discounted from USPS, are in the neighborhood of 10%! Otherwise they are fake, and the USPS does not get anything from the illegal stamps!

Yeah, I’m pretty sure they are legit. I don’t remember exactly where I got them, might have been ebay. Like I said, it was three or four years ago, whatever the case, USPS hasn’t “returned to sender” anything so far!

What happens if you mail a letter with a fake stamp?

So what happens if you use a counterfeit stamp when you mail your next letter? It is a crime, and it’s possible you could be prosecuted. The letter you mail will be treated as abandoned mail, so the postmaster has the discretion to open it or destroy it.