Good time of year to be a stamp collector

Andy Pastuszak
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Good time of year to be a stamp collector Dec 22, 2014 4:58:32 GMT Londonbus1 and rod222 like this

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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Dec 22, 2014 4:58:32 GMT

I FINALLY finished my Christmas cards. I haven't mailed cards in the last 2 years, because my wife always insists that we take some kind of family photo and use that for our card. Well, the last 2 years we've never gotten around to the photo. So this year I put my foot down and said that we were just sending a card, and that we were going to seriously pair the list down. One year we sent over 100 cards out.

Well, that only partially worked. My wife is Irish Catholic and the youngest of 9. So, just her immediate family was 30 cards right there. We ended up with 60 cards and not enough Christmas stamps! I was NOT looking forward to going to the post office and standing in that long line to buy more stamps, especially since I am pretty sure that all the Christmas stamps would be sold out.

Then it dawns on me. I am a stamp collector and have plenty of extra Christmas stamps from previous years! So, I went through a box and found a bunch of old Madonna and Child stamps, as well as Christmas Toys and Old World Santas. I doubled up on these and was good to go.

Now I can get some rest.

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Good time of year to be a stamp collector Dec 22, 2014 5:37:40 GMT rod222 likes this

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Post by stampgeezer on Dec 22, 2014 5:37:40 GMT

Well Andy, you are a day ahead of me on mailing them. I used almost all of my old Christmas stamps last year, so I ordered 60 from the USPS via ebay when they first came out. When I used to put old stamps on mailings to relatives, I always hoped someone would ask about them, but nobody ever did.

Oh well, Theron

rod222
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What I collect: Worldwide Stamps, Ephemera and Catalogues

Good time of year to be a stamp collector Dec 22, 2014 9:51:00 GMT

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Post by rod222 on Dec 22, 2014 9:51:00 GMT

Dec 22, 2014 5:37:40 GMT stampgeezer said:

Well Andy, you are a day ahead of me on mailing them. I used almost all of my old Christmas stamps last year, so I ordered 60 from the USPS via ebay when they first came out. When I used to put old stamps on mailings to relatives, I always hoped someone would ask about them, but nobody ever did.

Oh well, Theron

Just think of this,
just perhaps, one of those covers were saved, or went to a mission charity,
one day, a collector shall pick it up, and it will be saved and treasured.

Good deeds never go unrewarded.

Mick
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What I collect: Mostly covers and postmarks. Also miscellaneous paper ephemera.

Good time of year to be a stamp collector Dec 23, 2014 1:02:07 GMT rod222 likes this

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Post by Mick on Dec 23, 2014 1:02:07 GMT

Dec 22, 2014 9:51:00 GMT rod222 said:

Just think of this,
just perhaps, one of those covers were saved, or went to a mission charity,
one day, a collector shall pick it up, and it will be saved and treasured.

Good deeds never go unrewarded.

That's a great way of thinking about it, and something that I try to keep in mind when I am sending my Postcrossing postcards. I always send them off using old stamps, in the hopes that the recipient will value them a bit more than if I had used yet another global forever stamp. And I do often get nice messages in return. But even if I don't get a good response, I like to believe that they will end up belonging to a stamp collector some day.

Last Edit: Dec 23, 2014 1:03:29 GMT by Mick

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philatelia
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What I collect: Ireland, Japan, Scandy, USA, Venezuela, Vatican, Bermuda, Austria

Good time of year to be a stamp collector Dec 24, 2014 15:50:23 GMT Ryan, Andy Pastuszak, and 3 more like this

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Post by philatelia on Dec 24, 2014 15:50:23 GMT

My family has been trained through years of begging and whining to save all the stamps off their mail for me. LOL So I use cards as a chance to get some of those recent commems postally used. This year everyone got a Harry Potter stamp. Heh heh. I'm incorrigible.

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