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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 8054003, member: 9270&quot;]One problem with stamp collecting (and maybe the main one) is that the stamp issuing entities create new stamps at the drop of a hat.</p><p>It&#039;s a money making process for governments.</p><p>Why should Tuvalu issue stamps honoring Mickey Mouse?</p><p><br /></p><p>My US stamp catalog is larger than ANY of my US coin catalogs.</p><p>The first US postage stamps were issued in 1847.</p><p>By 2017 there had been 5211 <b>different</b> US postage stamps issued.</p><p>That&#039;s in 171 years; that&#039;s slightly more than 30 per year.</p><p>And that&#039;s only postage stamps.</p><p>That doesn&#039;t include Air Mails, Postage Dues, Revenues, postal cards, postal envelopes, duck stamps, etc.</p><p>The commemoratives killed large interest in stamp collecting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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