What Countries Do You Think Put Out "Worthless" Stamps..

but my dear cgrotha why wait so long to say it. hopefully in a week or so I will have 20 or so stamps tied as a turkey since the elephants are all gone

Herm is good.
At least people live there.

Staffa is very empty for about 200 years !

[Bogus stamps are issued for use by the birds- ]

Londonbus1...likes Birds !

I think Great Britain issue stamps for sole purpose of Revenue. And it's getting worse with every passing month.
Almost weekly it seems, new sheets and other items are issued at a huge mark-up from face value making them unusable in the postage sense.
But collectors and souvenir hunters snap them up with gay abandon so who is winning?

Londonbus1

Well, at the risk of getting my head beat in, I would like to nominate this as a "country" that is prime example of what is wrong wrt stamp issuing policy:

(This no reflection on HM but...)
I have actually been that that Isle in the Channel so perhaps that gives me the right to complain, but to create a sheet like this, at 50 pound a pop, is nothing less than outrageous. 50 pounds is a lot of money to almost anyone other than Bill Gross. For an island that one can easily walk in a few hours and has no more that 60,000 persons.
A quick perusal of their website shows a stamp issuing policy whose only purpose is to lighten the pockets of collectors.

(Guernsey is not a country after all but a feudal anachronism that no one has had the time to resolve and whose prime rationale is to facilitate tax avoidance. That is not a reason, imho, to issue stamps.)

I agree...they're for the birds...

I enjoy collecting Umm Al Qiwain stamps, but only those as listed in the Scott catalog. If it wasn't used for postage, I do not collect it.

I have a couple of their stamps.. Guernsey Bailiwick #'s 8-A3 and 10-A3

you can add Guinea-Bissau to that list, IMHO.

smauggie I know people who collect the sand dunes..there are albums and catalogs printed for them..we collect for our own pleasure after all !!

You're 2fr Beechcraft Baron is Scott #94, the 5fr Douglas DC-4 is Scott #95.
Released Nov.24,1967.


Ernie

thanks Ernie

It seems to me it is the difference between "stamps" and "postage stamps". Anything you choose to collect is fair game for you own interests, but as I try to collect postage stamps I am troubled by the "spur of the moment" stamps that are (wink, wink) sold as postage stamps. (Having said that, the US Postal Service is no less guilty - do they really expect anyone to ever post many of the stamps that are sold - of course not. And hasn't Monaco sold stamps only for collecting purposes for decades?) So more and more, I try to collect stamps that "could" have been used legally for postage. I think other "sticker" stamps are just that and lessen my collection - they have no real postal significance.

St Lucia, St Vincent, Grenada

Value is in the eye of the beholder. In my collection, the used penny black gets the same amount of space as the recent used US "forever" stamp, as well as the CTO bicolored uniform stamps of Ajman (try to find one of those with genuine postal cancel, HA HA).

I have no problem with "worthless" stamps, as they are cheaper to acquire. I no longer have any interest in "completing" a collection, as I no longer find that satisfying. In fact, I've returned to my childhood joy of collecting worldwide; fairly hopeless, but I don't care -- the idea that I can keep acquiring new stamps keeps me happy. I just like seeing more and more stamps, the more the merrier. I know there are many who will disagree (like my wife).

But as far as I'm concerned, the more stamps that get issued, the merrier. The 50 GBP Guernsey mini-sheet doesn't bother me a bit. I'm in no hurry to get it, and by the time I do acquire it, I won't have paid anything close to 50 GBP for it. And even if I don't get it, it won't matter because there are many other stamps that I can acquire in its place. There are still plenty of empty spaces in my albums to keep me active and happy in this hobby. Somebody somewhere will have that 50 GBP minisheet in their collection -- and I will be quite satisfied being happy for them!

Enjoy your stamps, whatever may come your way...

k

but people in the country of issue should have a reasonable chance to buy it.

try to find postally used Mongolia or Cuba

k,

you are my hero :)