[Dx-qsl] best way to save postage stamps

Tue May 11 14:10:48 EDT 2004

Hi Bill,
 I can't answer your question, but when I was working in China, I found something
to be fairly unusual. 
 A lot of Chinese folk really are into collecting stamps. 
However, unlike most collectors here...they want USED stamps. They don't want the new mint type.
 I took them a lot of collector type stamp packages, and they were not too enthused...hi.
73, Tom K5IID
FireBrick <w9ol at billnjudy.com> wrote:
Sorry for the off topic.
I don't REALLY collect stamps but I'm saving all the return Air Mail envelopes with
foreign stamps as maybe my grandchildren will get the bug.
I use a letter opener to slit the top of the envelope.
Is this the best way, does the envelope have any value or just the stamp.
If a envelope like this one from Iceland just has a machine stamped postage, should it be
saved also?
I've got a couple thousand old envelopes with stamps still on them.
Is this the best way to save them?
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