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Message:: [QUOTE="kanga, post: 8054003, member: 9270"]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.It's a money making process for governments.Why should Tuvalu issue stamps honoring Mickey Mouse? My US stamp catalog is larger than ANY of my US coin catalogs.The first US postage stamps were issued in 1847.By 2017 there had been 5211 different US postage stamps issued.That's in 171 years; that's slightly more than 30 per year.And that's only postage stamps.That doesn't include Air Mails, Postage Dues, Revenues, postal cards, postal envelopes, duck stamps, etc.The commemoratives killed large interest in stamp collecting.[/QUOTE]