Fun for Collectors: Where to Get Stamps

This year I'm on a campaign to encourage people to relax more and have fun, with a goal to being happier!

One of the ways to get away from the never ending To-Do lists that make us run like hamsters at the wheel, is to simply begin collecting something that interests you.

It does not have to be expensive things (like my personal habit of Wedgewood Jasper) but can be done with something that is delivered to you everytime you get the mail from your letterbox.

Stamps!

Despite so much electronic mail, it is still easy, free and FAST to begin a collection of stamps, especially if you ask your family and friends to collect them for you from their mail too.

And all the duplicate stamps you get, you can bundle up and sell on eBay to overseas collectors... way to go! New hobby, that also makes you some lunch money

You can get as carried away and committed to this hobby as you want, or you can keep it a light hobby, just keeping stamps that take your fancy... maybe just in a theme, like Trains, or Flowers, or Birds...

Its all up to you and your personal preferences --- just as long as you have fun with it!!

With the advent of electronic mail, the internet, and instant messaging, is stamp collecting still a feasible hobby?

The answer is yes: sending letters by “snail mail,” after all, is growing to be increasingly rare, and what better time to collect stamps than taking advantage of the rarity of even finding them?

This leads to the question: where can one get stamps in this electronic day and age?

Before you begin collecting, or start expanding that current collection, take note that there are actually different types of stamps available, and knowing these different types will aid you in knowing where to get them.

Following are some sources of stamps for avid collectors.

• Your ordinary postage stamps are actually the easiest stamps to obtain. You can get them off old letters in your grandfather’s storage box in your attic.

You can get them from your friends who still keep their old snail mails. You can even buy some stamps from your local post office and simply keep them at home.

• Postal Stationery will include air letter sheets and post cards issued by the government. You can get these at your post office.

• Contact your local wildlife bureau, or wildlife conservation groups such as the Sierra Club.

These groups will occasionally issue wildlife stamps with pictures of endangered species, and will sell them, or even give them away at the end of the year.

These may include Federal Duck stamps, which are issued along with licenses for duck hunting.

• Some postal services may release souvenir sheets, which are actually large pictures with perforated parts that may be torn out to serve as stamps.

• Important stamps have their own “First Day Ceremonies,” where the stamps are given out along with a write-up on the stamp’s history.

Experienced collectors often look forward to these events, as the accompanying write-ups can include an autograph of the speaker or speakers at the ceremony.

• If you have more than one copy of a stamp, you can get in touch with stamp collectors through the Internet, via an electronic mailing list, for instance.

This can allow you to exchange stamps, and make new friends as well.

If you want to start collecting stamps on a serious level, then get in touch with experienced collectors, or find a stamp dealer near you.

If you are already an advanced collector, keep yourself up to date with stamp catalogues.

Stamp collecting is an enjoyable hobby, and it can be made even better with real know how and enthusiasm.

Most importantly - just have some fun with this pleasurable hobby!

Our section here on the site will show you how to start stamp collecting so that you will have fun, not pay too much for your stamps (or how to get them free)along with tips for how to know the value of your stamps if you decide to trade and sell stamps.

Stamp collecting is fun and affordable, for you, your kids and your friends. I have had many years of pleasure from my stamp collection.

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