Top Ten Things A Stamp Collector Does Not Want To Hear!

OK, let's just skip numbers 10 to 2 and go right to my number one paranoia.

"Hey thanks for the package of free stamps you sent me - turns out there was an upside down airplane in the package that was really valuable."

Feel free to add to the list.

"I ran out of postage, so I used one of the stamps you just purchased. I hope you don't mind?!?"

"How many stamps do you have in your collection? " is always a favorite of mine. I guess if I answer half a million, it somehow makes me better than the guy who only has 20.

or

"Do people still do that?" is another one I hear alot. As if American Idol, and Playstation have somehow made Philately obsolete.

Hi

When cutting mounts OOPS!

Jerry B

My wife with a box of matches telling me my stamps are g......!

"Sorry I had to use a pen to cancel the stamps"

"Aren't you hot working on those stamps? Let me turn a fan on for you . . . ."

Not a funny one, still a phrase I hear a lot and learned to dread:

"I have a huge stamps collection, some of them are very old and valuable. Could you estimate them for me?"

If they are so valuable why do I need to estimate them?

Needless to say 100% of the collections which are described this way worth much less than the stockbooks they are kept in...

"Meeoww" *rustle rustle rustle* "Meeow"

Heard from the kitchen whilst making a coffee after spending 3 hours sorting Machins a couple of weeks ago....

Maiden yours sounds like my house -- My two little rats (I mean dogs) have aquired a taste for unopened purchases of stamps of online auctions. Thank goodness no heavy losses to date. They don't realise what thin ice theyre skating on.

And a true story : An Ex Girlfriend - My friends are property developers and found a few sackfuls of stamps in the attic should I ask them for you.... a few anticipated weeks later.... "I am sorry I didnt ask them in time - they threw them away!." Hence the EX part of the store.

"Did you notice those brown spots on all these stamps...."

AA-AA-AA-ACHOOOOOO!

The Mrs tells me

By the way, I used that coil of 100 stamps to mail out the Christmas Cards.

How come the stripes were missing on the flag ?

"So, what did you buy at the stamp show?"

Always my nightmare..

In a unanimous vote at the UN, all member nations have decided to cease production of postage stamps. All postal materials will have RFIDs from here on.

Cheers
Ram