Low Production Amount Planned For Upcoming Floral Geometry $10 Stamps - Consequences?

John, I apologize, what do you mean by captively create?

captively create = controlled mail = you send it in a way you will get it back.

Agree wholeheartedly about modern stamps showing postal use - especially commemoratives that do not attract popular topical areas such as birds and space exploration where they may be used b some for promotional materials OR kept. For definitives, I think it would be the booklet stamps that are used less than flags stamps. Yet it seems some booklet stamps do sell at a better price than one would expect - but very spotty. I think that if you collect modern stamps you do out of love of the material. Yes the old engraved stamps have that wonderful tactile aspect moderns do not and the tendency to use papers with this odd plastic sticker paper. But it seems the USPS is employing various types of tagging on modern stamps making these possibly attractive to those who collect tagged stamps. As has been said numerous times, one never rarely collects solely for investment purposes. If they do, they would likely have a stamp specialist in rare stamps do the purchasing much as one relies on a seasoned investment company to select stocks to invest.

Anyway, all good points raised in this thread.