Part Of A Cool Collection

Every subcategory you could ever think of is collected by someone.
It is often impossible to tell what attracts a collector to a specific item. I know a friend who collects 3-letter town names!
(Thus my continued encouragement to list on ebay and let the market decide the value.)

I figured as much....almost endless. Yes, at some point I'll be listing on ebay and let the market decide. In the meanwhile, I'm combing over "sold" sales to get a ballpark on what might be of interest above the average fair listed.

One thing I've found out in selling all these years......you just never know.

I do have a question on Forte's lists. Many of the PO's listed will have a "Be notified when a cover is available" next to the town, so no examples are available for sale. Does that mean they are somewhat scarce, or just the fact that he doesn't have any at the time?

Also, how does one "quote" a poster in the thread?

This video will help you with the 'quote' text feature



Don

The Forte post office list is also his marketing tool to link to his own sale stock. It doesn't reflect scarcity.

(Nor availability anywhere else.)

"The Forte post office list is also his marketing tool to link to his own sale stock. It doesn't reflect scarcity."

Ah.....OK.

Quote tool is cover @ 6:13 in the video.
DOn

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Dead Post Offices (DPO) are collected, for sure. A ghost town is a subset of those, I suppose.

DPO: A slight quibble of terminology ...
They are are not dead, they are discontinued post offices, which is the term used in the Postal Bulletin.

As an example, here is the Ogilby listing from PB 18396, dated Feb 24, 1942:

I agree that Discontinued Post Offices are a subset of Dead Post Offices. Collectors use the DPO acronym for both. Which, luckily, confuses no one.

My interest in dead post offices extends, mildly, to one county in the US, but many colonies and dominions in the British Empire.

As an aside, does USPS use "DPO" for Discontinued Post Offices? I know they use it for Diplomatic Post Offices:

https://www.usps.com/ship/apo-fpo-dpo.htm

Which almost begs the question ("No, it doesn't"), have any Diplomatic Post Offices been discontinued? Tel Aviv, maybe? Making a DPO a DPO?

No idea who you are agreeing with. It's not me. Since "Dead post offices" is not a correct philatelic term, thus there cannot be any "subset" of it. That said, I would be curious to see your definitions of both terms and the other subsets.



See my previous post with direct image from a Postal Bulletin. It speaks for itself.

"Diplomatic ..." is a smoke and mirrors tangent of no relevance here.

Why such resistance to using the proper philatelic terminology?

Ogilby is a Discontinued Post Office. Which would make it a Dead Post Office in the same category as Aultsville, Ontario (though the cause of death differs). Aultsville may be a discontinued post office, but it is not a Discontinued Post Office. It is, however, a Dead Post Office.

I'm sorry. We will have agree to disagree. Your reply is complete jibberish to me and does not directly address my questions. I am ready to move on to other topics.