Cost Of Collecting New Issues

Can anyone help me find a chart/table summarizing the cost of collecting new issues by year?

I know I've seen the listing in Linn's or in Scott Stamp Monthly, but I can't seem to find it again.

Thanks,
KirkS

Of all WW new issues, or of US only?

Well, for the US new issues, the most recent one is on page 11 of the 9/14/2009 edition of Linn's.

I know they used to have an annual article on the total cost of new WW issues, as well as the top dozen or so countries in terms of number of new stamps issued. But I haven't seen that in a while and it doesn't seem to be in the online archives.

Thanks KHJ:

I was looking for WW, but I couldn't find either that or U.S. on the Linn's sight. I searched long enough to convince myself that maybe I never saw it in the first place

But, it sure seems to me there WAS a WW list our there somewhere. Oh well, it'll turn up when I'm not looking for it.

Thanks for the US data. For others who might be interested, I've decided to violate Linn's copyright and paste it here



KirkS

There is definitely a WW list. It used to appear annually in Linn's, stopped a year or so, and was resurrected again, and then disappeared again. I haven't seen it in a few years, so it may no longer be updated in print in Linn's. Even if I dug it out of my Linn's archive that in storage, it would definitely be a couple years old.

FINALLY! I have an answer to my original question about the mysterious table listing the Cost of Collecting New Issues.

I sent an email to Linn's and within 15 minutes I had an personal reply from Editor Michael Baadke. The table is published in Scott Stamp Monthly -- the most recent one in the November 2009 issue includes data for 2006, 2007, and 2008. The table is four pages long, beginning on page 12.

Thanks to all who tried to help me find it. And thanks to Mr. Baadke for excellent reader service.

KirkS

thanks for this data. For the most part I gave up collecting new US issues several years back. I will soak a new commemorative or high face value stamp off a letter or package if lightly or attractively cancelled and I believe I can do it without tearing or defacing the stamp. Unfortunately, the majority of mail that does have stamps instead of meters, comes with definitives. I would venture these days, less than 1% of stamped mail in the US has a commemorative stamp on it and I am amazed when I look at an updated catalog or supplement of US stamps, how many stamps have been issued that I have never seen.

And then you have diddys like me that want to collect
sheets. Seen the price on the high end priority mail
in sheet form ?? HAVE MERCY......
Thank God I have an understanding wife that forks out
once a month for the sheets.

Ouch. The Bixby Creek Bridge is going to cause you great pain

KirkS

Ok, haven't payed attention to the new releases , what is
coming ?

I'm gonna regret that

New Priority Mail Stamps (Jan 4 2010):

$ 4.90 - Mackinac Bridge
$18.30 - Bixby Creek Bridge

KirkS

yikes 23 dollars?

Hmm, she might balk, but I doubt it. She snagged a sheet
of 04/05 ? of the higher dollar Overnight Express?? for
me a few years back that had her using my PP account.
I was peddling comic books off my webshops right and left,
but suddenly there $600 hole where some money had been.
Yeah, she's gonna bleed me dry, but we love doing this
together even after 30+ years of marriage.

i should have bought some sheets when I had the chance. too late now I guess

Updated data from Linn's 21 Jan 2013 issue:

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