Hole-Punch Or Page Protectors?

Are you in Florida or Arizona? If you live in a naturally humid place, you have to worry more about mold and mildew.

Mounts can be a problem, but to a lesser degree. With mounts the moisture has a smaller distance to travel to get out from under the plastic.

I did some reading . Vario are made of polyester and Staples pages protector of polypropylene. According to the Postal Museum it's safe to use them with stamps. Of course humidity still a concern and PH no so much with Vario

https://postalmuseum.si.edu/collect...lastics.html

Each to their own, especially with hobbies where every collector has the right to do whatever they want. It's a hobby, not a religion. But on the subject of plastic page protectors holding stamp album pages, my feelings could not be more negative. I think they look absolutely awful.

Vinyl may also be detrimental to the safety of the stamps inside these pages, but my main concern is that they make looking at pages of stamps unpleasant. I have no idea why anyone would enjoy looking through vinyl to see stamps. To me, vinyl is for cheap things, it's what toys are made of, it feels unpleasant, and it just cheapens the heck of a stamp collection. A photograph collection on paper pages can look very classy, but insert all those photos inside vinyl pockets and they look instantly cheap and ordinary. Who would put a beautiful painting behind a sheet of vinyl plastic? It's like covering your furniture with vinyl protection. Some people may do that, but it just looks bad. If you're that worried that your stamps will catch onto the stamps on the opposite page, either insert a protective sheet (often made of glassine) or mount your stamps on one side of the page only. Mounting stamps on small school notebook sized paper already takes away the elegance of the stamp page. Putting them into vinyl pockets just destroys the whole look of the pages. For me, anyway, but vinyl away if that's your thing!

They are not made of vinyl. Read my post it's polypropylene. The problem is not the plastic but the humidity that can be trap inside. In the most humid day I keep my stamp room at 50' In winter it go low to 15' so it's not a problem. I bearly never see over 40'