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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3573043, member: 88829&quot;]Don&#039;t equate the stamp market with the sale of bulk rate postage.&nbsp; People like Frank R have been saving by buying discount postage for years already, but that&#039;s not about building a collection. For years people have speculated on buying postage in bulk at face, on the assumption that it would always be worth face value.&nbsp; They never imagined that it would be bought and sold by dealers AT A DISCOUNT, but that was being done in the 60s already with 3c sheets bought in the 40s and 50s.&nbsp; The bulk rate on higher denomination stamps is holding its own, but the low denomination stamps are giveaways since an envelope has only so much room.&nbsp; That was never about collecting, and it is false to equate it with philately.</p><p><br /></p><p>As with coins, the real market barometer is not in the bulk market but rather with the major auction houses.&nbsp; In a boom economic market they are raking it in but on different types of material than 20-30-40 years ago.&nbsp; So what else is new?&nbsp; Unless you are really a market speculator at heart, have no more fear about the stamp market than you do for the market in ancient coins.&nbsp; The advice today is the same as ever: if you are looking to make a profit, you can do better elsewhere.&nbsp; Collecting has a bottom line, but the gist of it all is not about the bottom line.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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