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I understand they need to be sure their customers know listing isn't for rubber stamps. I get that. What, however would be wrong with calling them what we've always called them- Postage Stamps?
In the big scheme it is not worth getting upset over. The problem I now see is this term creeping into common usage. In the past weeks I've seen posters on other forums - probably newbies- talking about how they now collect Postal Stamps. 'Is this Postal Stamp I found worth anything'? In just a few years time I see this odd term replacing 'Postage Stamp' in our hobby. It just seems dumb. Also, awkward.
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If you do not like the name, why not propose something else. I actually think /postal/ stamp collecting needs a new name. It should includes stamp and postal history.
Collectors are:
archaeologists
historians
antiquity collectors
scrapbookers
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People don't sell or buy or collect only postal stamps. There are also revenue stamps, test stamps, Christmas seal stamps and telegraph stamps among others.
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Ha! I run a large model car show. We constantly get email and phone calls from agencies and people wanting to send girls to our modeling competition.
My friends who sell model car parts on eBay are constantly fighting negative feedback and disputes from stupid people who think they are buying parts for real cars. The sellers have included large warnings in their listings "This is a part for a 1/25 scale model car-- not a real car" but they ignore that and demand the seller send them a real car part.
How friggin stupid can one be to think that a seller has a "Buy It Now" for a hood or a set of wheels and tires for $5 plus $3 postage??? But there's new ones every day.
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My point is, there already is a commonly accepted term for what we collect-'Postage stamps'. And no, it's not a major issue but is does serve as an example of how influential Ebay has become in setting standards for the nomenclature we use in this hobby.
I have collected for nearly 60 years. In all that time I never heard that term, not even once. Ebay does a page redesign and someone there knowing nothing about our hobby uses it and now it is seeping into general usage.
OK, I'll sit down now. It's futile anyway. Just interesting.
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I have vented about this before, if not on this forum than on others. Ebay seems to be on a campaign to relabel what we do as collecting 'Postal Stamps'.
I understand they need to be sure their customers know listing isn't for rubber stamps. I get that. What, however would be wrong with calling them what we've always called them- Postage Stamps?
In the big scheme it is not worth getting upset over. The problem I now see is this term creeping into common usage. In the past weeks I've seen posters on other forums - probably newbies- talking about how they now collect Postal Stamps. 'Is this Postal Stamp I found worth anything'? In just a few years time I see this odd term replacing 'Postage Stamp' in our hobby. It just seems dumb. Also, awkward.
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If you do not like the name, why not propose something else. I actually think /postal/ stamp collecting needs a new name. It should includes stamp and postal history.
Collectors are:
archaeologists
historians
antiquity collectors
scrapbookers
?
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re: Anybody Collecting 'Postal' Stamps?
People don't sell or buy or collect only postal stamps. There are also revenue stamps, test stamps, Christmas seal stamps and telegraph stamps among others.
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Ha! I run a large model car show. We constantly get email and phone calls from agencies and people wanting to send girls to our modeling competition.
My friends who sell model car parts on eBay are constantly fighting negative feedback and disputes from stupid people who think they are buying parts for real cars. The sellers have included large warnings in their listings "This is a part for a 1/25 scale model car-- not a real car" but they ignore that and demand the seller send them a real car part.
How friggin stupid can one be to think that a seller has a "Buy It Now" for a hood or a set of wheels and tires for $5 plus $3 postage??? But there's new ones every day.
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re: Anybody Collecting 'Postal' Stamps?
My point is, there already is a commonly accepted term for what we collect-'Postage stamps'. And no, it's not a major issue but is does serve as an example of how influential Ebay has become in setting standards for the nomenclature we use in this hobby.
I have collected for nearly 60 years. In all that time I never heard that term, not even once. Ebay does a page redesign and someone there knowing nothing about our hobby uses it and now it is seeping into general usage.
OK, I'll sit down now. It's futile anyway. Just interesting.
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