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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;differential, post: 7845867, member: 120104&quot;]Just a thought from me, IMHO.</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my Dad, soaking some stamps off envelopes and getting others through large and inexpensive lots. There were albums with inexpensive covers and often a bunch of stamps came with them. The contrast of the colorful stamps to the beige album pages was often pure eye candy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wow, were those stamps beautiful in comparison to many other objects in the daily world! Newspapers were black and white and the ink came off.&nbsp; If I am remembering correctly, even Life and Look magazine were mostly black and white. Television, at least in our house, was always in black and white.</p><p><br /></p><p>The stamps came from places that were, back then, far away. &quot;Hey Dad, what do you know about this country.&quot; Sometimes a stamp led one to the encyclopedia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Much as I don&#039;t like the word &quot;special&quot; as much now since it suffers from &quot;special inflation,&quot; stamps were special. Maybe even the word singular would apply.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s so much eye candy in our world today that lessens how different stamps used to be from the other things in daily lives. Magazines became full-color and with great photography and design. The covers of books became more brilliant and with full-color photos splashed onto the covers.</p><p><br /></p><p>And, of course, the phones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Are these factors related to lessened interest in stamps? Well, correlation doesn&#039;t imply causation. But things are definitely different today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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