Really? If you buy it on-line with LDWF, you are charged $1.72 over the face-value of the duck stamp, which is $15.00.

Why not just the cost of the postage stamp?

Because the envelope, the person working to mail it to you, and the location he works isn't free. Convenience comes at a price, and Wal-Mart and Academy aren't going to pay for the convenience of not having to stock stamps.

DANG, just buy it during the split. It's better second split anyway


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Quit being such a tight a z z........:work: Geez....and you wonder why nothing is hardly made in America anymore....

Drop thousands on antlers you can't eat, but ain't springing for the $6.00


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Why don't they just do away with the stamp and just charge us and itemize it on our license. It would save them money. What's the importance of having a physical postage stamp? It's weird when you think about it.

Agreed

It's not weird at all you consider the historical perspective and the fact that point-of-sale licensing has only been around since 2000; ducks stamps since 1932.

Elimination of the physical stamp may be coming. However, there are a substantial number of duck stamps sold to collectors, for entrance into NWRs and to people wanting to contribute to wetland conservation. Furthermore, and maybe more importantly, there is a big art industry (although it is in decline) based around duck stamps. A couple of states that have attempted to discontinue their duck stamp have played hell with the supporters of that industry within their states. I have suggested eliminating the physical Louisiana Duck Stamp, and been severely rebuffed. The federal duck stamp is bigger in every way, AND there is no mechanism for a conservation-minded person to contribute money to the most efficient wetland-conservation program ever because there are no federal hunting license sales. So the stamp will continue.

I know many of you, maybe most of you, don't give a damn: a duck stamp is just your "admission ticket" to be able to kill ducks. But it is much more to many other people.

Maybe "do away with" wasn't the right words. We can continue to have an annual duck stamp paint off but give hunters the option to not have to hold a physical stamp.

I like keeping my old stamps, I hope they dont get rid of them

I also keep all of my old stamps. I think I have every stamp back to 1993. I keep saying one day I'm going to have them framed but never have.

Same thing happened to me, I had to call WL&F but they eventually mailed me the Federal stamp that I had paid for.