2022 Scott Minuteman Album Supplement

My Minuteman album supplement arrived in the mail, something I always look forward to. This year's supplement consists of 12 pages of postage stamps and one page for Duck stamps. There are spots for 121 different stamps. The Mighty Mississippi, Marine Sanctuary and Peanuts stamps are set up for the entire sheets, so add ten stamps for the duplicated Peanuts if you go that route.

They also included three pages to replace ones from 2021. They re-arranged the order and Scott numbers for the Backyard Games, Lighthouses and Sun Science stamps. I didn't use these pages since I already had stamps mounted and I'm trying to conserve my Dennison hinges. At the rate new stamps are generated, I only have 2-3 years left in my supply.

From the stamps I collected from home & office mail over the year, I filled 80 spots (66%). The curious can see my previous year reports by searching my user name.

I have only one 2023 stamp so far (Lunar New Year), but will keep trying to fill the spots. Collecting current, used stamps is a challenge but satisfying.

Good job filling out two thirds of your 2022 used singles already. I don't get nearly enough mail to fill up that many modern commemoratives.

I wish the album makers would give more options for singles vs blocks vs sheets. My album has spaces for both singles and blocks during the 1970's-80's period which is nice, but for modern issues, just the sheets. This makes for a messy display (IMO) of single stamps that are all crammed together and hinged on the page with perfs touching, or mounted sideways like the WWII sheets, and/or randomly scattered around the page like the Nature of America sheets. Even worse that most of the modern self adhesives I keep on paper rather than trying to soak. It is impossible to neatly hinge them on pages when the album only offers a sheet format to mount them in. I could create my own pages or insert blank pages, but instead I just have a binder of Hagner stock pages to keep track of them. It would be nice if the album makers provided pages for both sheets and singles.

The Harris Liberty USA Album does just that (offers both sheets and singles pages) which is a big selling point for them. Your solution of using stock pages is a good one.

John