In a recent message Joshua McGee <joshuaREMOVEME@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Thu, 01 May 2008 15:50:05 +0800, rodney wrote:
>
> > "Joshua McGee"
> >> I asked them for a quote on the record that they believed the
average
> >> stamp
> >> collector to be "stupid but honest", but for some reason they
declined
> >> to comment.
> >
> > According to Stanley Gibbons, either we, the collectors, or the stamp
> > issuing beuracracy are "congenitally stupid" I couldn't quite make out
> > which.
> >
> > [snip]
> > It is difficult to warn effectively people
> > who are congenitally stupid
>
> That would be those who throw good money after bad -- in modern terms,
> Dunes, Caribbean, and so forth. I take it to be beseeching on the part
> of SG that collectors wise up to blatant extortion. Sincerely, when an
> island with fewer than 100 inhabitants becomes a stamp issuing entity,
it
> becomes absurd. If I had the means, I would go to the Caribbean and
> generate postally-used examples of all the expensive labels that Grenada
> et al. generate. Even as philatelic items, those would be rather
> valuable at some point, if they actually moved through the international
> mailstream on the back of Donald Duck! Hmmm ... a Registered Grenada
> Grenadines cover....
>
> > It is just silly to
> > grumble and still buy the stamps, and a sharp drop in the Crown
Agents'
> > sales is the only thing which will bring reform.
>
> Words to live by, if ever there were. As I said in the April 21st
> Linn's, if the new Express Mail stamp seems too expensive, DON'T BUY IT!
It is interesting to compare the recent approach to such issues to
that which applied to all the Italian Dodecanese Island issues
just before WW1, where 12 islands each had their own overprinted
sets. Some of those islands had very small populations, and could
have been considered as a single 'Egeo' grouping (as they were later)
>
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