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Welcome to Stamporama, Domarok. I hope you find us a congenial and helpful club.
In my experience, which on some days seems way too long, a great many collectors have given up on new issues, in part because of the "SAI" (Self-Adhesive Issue) and in part because of the flood of new issues coming from everywhere for everything. I myself mostly ignore new issues and concentrate instead on stamps and covers contemporaneous with the things that most interest me, most of which predate the end of the Cold War, assuming that it actually ended. I used to try to keep up with the new issues of Ireland, but even that small country, which has a fairly reasonable stamp-issuing policy, began to overwhelm me, especially when new album pages began to be more expensive than the stamps themselves. Besides, I have little interest in owning something that 20,000,000 other people can own if they wish. I actually spend a lot more money on covers than stamps, most of which are unique and heavy with provenance.
Bob
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Hi Domarok;
I just stick em' down to the page, and give em' a couple of whacks, to make sure they don't try to get up again! 
I agree with Bob, who would collect them on purpose?
Just havin' fun....
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03:57:47am
Since most come in booklets, I've pretty much transferred my modern Canadian collection to souvenir sheets instead of individual mint stamps. Often the booklet has a little blurb of history related to the subject of the stamp so my Mum buys the stamps for her usage and leaves one or two untouched in the booklet so I have the historical blurb plus the issue.
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New comer to the site. I collected for years, but the collection and collecting went dormant for 30+ years. Most of my mint stamps are mounted in the albums, used are usually hinged. I just read some ideas about collecting used self-adhesives, but what about mint stamps? For US stamps, do people keep a whole sheet when they are all the same? Thanks.
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re: How to collect mint self-adhesives
Welcome to Stamporama, Domarok. I hope you find us a congenial and helpful club.
In my experience, which on some days seems way too long, a great many collectors have given up on new issues, in part because of the "SAI" (Self-Adhesive Issue) and in part because of the flood of new issues coming from everywhere for everything. I myself mostly ignore new issues and concentrate instead on stamps and covers contemporaneous with the things that most interest me, most of which predate the end of the Cold War, assuming that it actually ended. I used to try to keep up with the new issues of Ireland, but even that small country, which has a fairly reasonable stamp-issuing policy, began to overwhelm me, especially when new album pages began to be more expensive than the stamps themselves. Besides, I have little interest in owning something that 20,000,000 other people can own if they wish. I actually spend a lot more money on covers than stamps, most of which are unique and heavy with provenance.
Bob
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re: How to collect mint self-adhesives
Hi Domarok;
I just stick em' down to the page, and give em' a couple of whacks, to make sure they don't try to get up again!
I agree with Bob, who would collect them on purpose?
Just havin' fun....
TuskenRaider
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re: How to collect mint self-adhesives
Since most come in booklets, I've pretty much transferred my modern Canadian collection to souvenir sheets instead of individual mint stamps. Often the booklet has a little blurb of history related to the subject of the stamp so my Mum buys the stamps for her usage and leaves one or two untouched in the booklet so I have the historical blurb plus the issue.
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