Has anyone ordered from Subway Stamp Shop?

I buy all my mounts from iHobb. They're super quick to ship, and the shipping for small quantities is about $6-8.

I have a life supply of mounts that came with a large lot of stuff at an auction years ago. It appears to have been old store stock. Most are Hawid mounts but the only 28 mm are Showgard and only have 9 strips per package. Some of the Hawid 29 mm I have contain 25. Message me Andy if you wanted me to mail you some from here in Canada. 

Same experience as Philatarium. Always ordered by phone, lots of items available not even listed in catalog, print ads, or online. They had one person there that knew everything they had (even spare parts for binders) and could create a special order for you! Shipping was very competitive. I think the most I ever paid was still <$20 for shipping about a dozen 48pp stockbooks!

But also like Philatarium, I haven't ordered from them in awhile (in my case, probably closing in on a decade). In the past 2 years, online reports have not been favorable in terms of shipping time and even unshipped items. That is not the Subway that I used to know and order from and refer others to without hesitation. I don't know what's going on. Strongly recommend talking to a real person and not an automated system.

Global's mailing address is now in Sidney, Ohio. Same place as Amos publishing.. The owner said they were not Amos. My guess it is a former employee or something. Check the contact information.

I stopped using Subway a while back since was always out of stock of something, unreliable shipping, and percentage-based shipping costs. They did not have a flat rate.

I had switched to Global (when they were in WA) until I started using HAWID so switched to Wizard Coin and Stamp in Virginia. They ship next day and have a flat rate. They were cheapest for moderate ($60) orders. Wizard's site is SLOW...almost like Amos.

Other places like the Matilda were cheaper on larger orders.

Thank you for the offer, but I placed an order with Global Stamps.

I've bought from them in past.  I totally forgot about that place.

I have purchased mounts from 3 different companies here in the US over the last year or so: Global, Wizard. and IHobb. They all featured easy online ordering, had all in stock (website blocked out of stock item), and shipped the next day. Global does not sell HAWID so had to purchase those elsewhere.

I checked Sunway and their shipping started at $9 (US Mail) where Global was free for mounts over $35 and iBobb was $6. Subway wants $22 for UPS for $ 50 order of mounts. I have ordered much heavier stuff from other companies using UPS and Subway prices look like consumer pricing - meaning they did not have a contract.

My former company had a shipping contract with UPS with an amazing discount and our company was not in even in the retail business (selling goods). Of course, it was a large company.

Amos Advantage is Amos Media's (formerly Scott Publishing) website. I use it frequently. They are, after all, the manufacturer of Scott albums, pages, binders, and so on. They have free shipping is you order above some amount like $65, so I delay ordering until I reach that amount. Or I add something else I "might" need to save on shipping costs, like a slipcase. I always need another slipcase. I'm not sure if they collect tax.

Subway Stamp Shop was one of my favorite companies to order from. I didn't begin buying from them until they had left New York City and were in Altoona, PA. No idea why they chose that location to move to and not a closer suburb to NYC or another (less expensive city), by the way, as they certainly would get relatively little "drop in" business out there. Maybe they just wanted the quiet life. They once had a very nice stamp supplies catalogue they would send, but I think the website has replaced that. was always happy with their discounted prices and their wide variety of stamp material other dealers did not have, foreign catalogues, different brands of albums, and so on. I often ordered through their website but sometime by phone and never saw much difference between the two. What I found more recently, though, was that Scott pages and other items I'd bought (at discounts before) were much slower to get to me because Subway was having trouble getting Amos/Scott to ship to them quickly. I talked with their main person there, a woman, and she actually told me I'd probably be better off ordering directly from Amos/Scott than from Subway. I found that refreshing, if a bit odd. I'd still buy from them, but lately I haven't been buying much.

I've bought mounts from Global Stamp (now in Pennsylvania) many times. Shipping is prompt, prices are very good, shipping costs are moderate. From Amos/Scott, I get the same service on mounts, prompt shipping, good prices and moderate shipping costs. The best approach, I've always found, is to order as large a quantity of mounts as you can from shipper which have a flat shipping rate. Global has free shipping, if I recall correctly, if you order around $35 and above. So I save up my mounts orders rather than ordering one or two packs of mounts which can get a bit expensive. I'm not too worried about different prices for mounts or different shipping charges. There is some difference between different sellers of mounts, it's true, but I just don't count pennies that carefully, I guess.

I haven't tried iHobb for mounts, but maybe I'll try them. I've used iHobb a number of times for other stamp supply orders, and they are very good, as good as any of the other companies. It's nice to have a few choices.

I don't know, I just ordered mounts and tried to get them from iHobb, but their Showgard pages refused to come up. I don't know if they're out of stock or if there's a technical issue, but almost all of their Showgard pages are grayed out. I went with Global instead. At least they worked.

It's been a while since I have ordered from Subway, but for the most part, have been happy with them. I tend to get my mounts from B&G Sales now, especially since he just moved to Central FL.