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Post by Perfs14 on Jul 29, 2013 4:19:00 GMT
We have all long suspected that most postal authorities have been over-issuing in the last few years in order to trap the collector's market. It came as no surprise when I plotted the number of different stamps issued by Australia Post (or by it earlier name) against each year: We wonder what will happen in 2013 with all the various commemoratives involving Roos and horses - will we hit 300? No wonder I stopped collecting Australia at 1990. The graph does not include all the varieties.
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Cephus
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What I collect: U.S. 1847-1993, Australia, China, New Zealand
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Post by Cephus on Sept 2, 2013 0:00:31 GMT
That's exactly why I stopped collecting U.S. stamps in 1993, it is clear that many, if not most, postal issuing entities are just screwing the collectors by putting out tons of stamps and making a buck off the completists. Personally, I don't care if virtually all stamp issuing entities vanished tomorrow. I don't use the postal system, I probably go through less than a book of stamps a year and really have no interest in modern stamps, they're ugly, mass-produced rip-offs. If they all went away, there would still be millions of stamps to collect, I'm satisfied with that.
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Post by ramanandn on Sept 4, 2013 2:40:55 GMT
I stopped collecting Oz for the same exact reasons; too many issues since 1990.
But the ones before 1930s are pretty awesome!
Ram
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