Sources of used stamps

Hello again,

I didn't count how many used stamps I have, but I am pretty sure that I have
more than ten thousand. I thought that I had so many before, but the fact
is that when I exchanged with other collectors, I noticed that many of them
had far more stamps than me.

My sources are very limited, mainly from purchasing through ebay and local
yahoo auction, and then exchanging the surplus with foreign collectors.

I get nearly nothing from receiving personal letters. I guess collectors
from developed countries may confront similar situation. Large organisation
such as bank use franking machine for postage, people communicate by phone
or mobile phone, and fax document to others. Especially in small city,
business documents are delivered by courier service, sample or document
sending to foreign countries by Fedex or TNT.

Moreover, labour cost in developed countries are relatively high, and this
means nobody will gather stamps on paper and resell to stamps dealers.

What I can get from my working life are local postage definitives~~
Commemoratives are rare~~

I don't understand how come many collectors have so many stamps.

Anybody can tell me other sources? Thanks.

G'day Edwin,
perhaps you search amongst the tributaries,
you need to locate the source of the spring,

Locate your local Stamp club,
they will generally have local auctions where
you can purchase bulk stamps cheaply.
You will soon have so many stamps, you'll wonder
just how you will manage them, and I'll bet you'll meet
some very nice people as a bonus.

"rodney"
G'day Edwin,
perhaps you search amongst the tributaries,
you need to locate the source of the spring,

Goodness, what was I saying!
I meant you to locate the river

I am claiming a "senior moment"

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:40:09 +0800, "Edwin" wrote:

Hello again,

I didn't count how many used stamps I have, but I am pretty sure that I have
more than ten thousand. I thought that I had so many before, but the fact
is that when I exchanged with other collectors, I noticed that many of them
had far more stamps than me.

My sources are very limited, mainly from purchasing through ebay and local
yahoo auction, and then exchanging the surplus with foreign collectors.

I get nearly nothing from receiving personal letters. I guess collectors
from developed countries may confront similar situation. Large organisation
such as bank use franking machine for postage, people communicate by phone
or mobile phone, and fax document to others. Especially in small city,
business documents are delivered by courier service, sample or document
sending to foreign countries by Fedex or TNT.

Moreover, labour cost in developed countries are relatively high, and this
means nobody will gather stamps on paper and resell to stamps dealers.

What I can get from my working life are local postage definitives~~
Commemoratives are rare~~

I don't understand how come many collectors have so many stamps.

One reason is that some of us bought plenty of bulk lots when we saw
them - at an inexpensive time.

I don't know what you collect, but I may have some (1000s) for trading
purposes.

Contact me through e-mail, please.

Thanks. I checked with the homepage of the Hong Kong stamps club, it comes
to me that they did arrange auction, but limited to high value items~~


"rodney" ...

"rodney"
G'day Edwin,
perhaps you search amongst the tributaries,
you need to locate the source of the spring,

Goodness, what was I saying!
I meant you to locate the river

I am claiming a "senior moment"

Perhaps so, Edwin, but you need to dig deeper.
All philatelists / stamp collectors have to generally dispose of their
"duplicates", it is a source of revenue for them to purchase other stamps.

For example, last year I bought a fairly extensive collection of
Swiss stamps, the owner bought a carton from Stanley Gibbons London
to enable him to secure just 3 or so stamps he was after.

Perhaps find the phone number of the secretary of your stamp club, and ask
him for
any source of lower range auctions, advise him exactly what you seek.
You will find them helpful, some clubs have "circuit sheets", you are sent
sheets of stamps with values as low as 10c, you just pick which stamps you
want and return the rest. You will nedd to join the stamp club.
The more stamp collectors there are, the better it is for all of us
no matter if it is Hong kong or Touva.
HTH

"Edwin" wrote in message ...
Thanks. I checked with the homepage of the Hong Kong stamps club, it
comes to me that they did arrange auction, but limited to high value
items~~