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http://www.linns.com/insights/yearly-cost.html
Just FYI, for world wide collectors, in 2014 the Solomon Islands is the leader in issuing wallpaper. The Scott catalog value for stamps issued in 2014 was $2,245.50 USD. Face value in local currency was over $8,800.00! I wonder what the per capita income in the Solomon Islands is.
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1,830 US greenbacks.
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I guess there aren't too many people on the Solomon Islands who can collect their own stamps.
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Which is why nobody starts collecting stamps today!
Back when I left stamp collecting around 1979, there was big cry that USPS was killing the golden goose by issuing too many stamps in extensive sets. When I got back to collecting a few years ago I saw that nobody headed the warning! USA stamp issues have gone from multiple to beyond excessive. And most of them have no social or historic value, so I have no interest in collecting them.
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Australia appears to come second.
Am I missing something? I cannot see any figures for the USA
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Wow, you are so right. They left out the USA. Well, remember that Scott compiled the list, so of course they'll forget something...
Anyway, the information I have is that the 2014 cost to purchase USA at face value was around $110.00 (Scott catalog value will be around $220.00). For 2015, face value for the USA was just $55.03 (about $110.00 catalog value).
For 2016, we've already had two new stamps with face values of $29.40 USD. Plus several other stamps have been issued. We'll definitely bust 2015's cost this year.
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From that Linns report:
"The FACE VALUE column shows what a collector would pay for the stamps at a post office window in the country using that country's currency."
So for Great Britain, that would come to £2.52, equating to a first class 4 stamp booklet and a completely blank look from the clerk.
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And each annual table comes in its own, handy, PDF.
Of course, a table is not a chart.
What would be way cooler - surely there is some college kid somewhere who needs a term project for their CS class - would be an interactive chart.
One imagines enable/disable buttons for each country, listed by name & flag, so you could combine, compare, etc.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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ikey, I would rather overhaul the entire approval books programming rather than ask Scott to attempt to create an interactive chart.
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"For 2015, face value for the USA was just $55.03 (about $110.00 catalog value).
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Or $44.00 on the discount postage market!
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03:22:49pm
Have you ever wondered what it would cost to buy all of the new stamps issued from any country in a given year? Here's a link that will provide that answer covering new issues from 2002 through 2014:
http://www.linns.com/insights/yearly-cost.html
Just FYI, for world wide collectors, in 2014 the Solomon Islands is the leader in issuing wallpaper. The Scott catalog value for stamps issued in 2014 was $2,245.50 USD. Face value in local currency was over $8,800.00! I wonder what the per capita income in the Solomon Islands is.
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1,830 US greenbacks.
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03:42:56pm
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I guess there aren't too many people on the Solomon Islands who can collect their own stamps.
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Which is why nobody starts collecting stamps today!
Back when I left stamp collecting around 1979, there was big cry that USPS was killing the golden goose by issuing too many stamps in extensive sets. When I got back to collecting a few years ago I saw that nobody headed the warning! USA stamp issues have gone from multiple to beyond excessive. And most of them have no social or historic value, so I have no interest in collecting them.
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09:59:00pm
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Australia appears to come second.
Am I missing something? I cannot see any figures for the USA
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10:11:56pm
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Wow, you are so right. They left out the USA. Well, remember that Scott compiled the list, so of course they'll forget something...
Anyway, the information I have is that the 2014 cost to purchase USA at face value was around $110.00 (Scott catalog value will be around $220.00). For 2015, face value for the USA was just $55.03 (about $110.00 catalog value).
For 2016, we've already had two new stamps with face values of $29.40 USD. Plus several other stamps have been issued. We'll definitely bust 2015's cost this year.
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From that Linns report:
"The FACE VALUE column shows what a collector would pay for the stamps at a post office window in the country using that country's currency."
So for Great Britain, that would come to £2.52, equating to a first class 4 stamp booklet and a completely blank look from the clerk.
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And each annual table comes in its own, handy, PDF.
Of course, a table is not a chart.
What would be way cooler - surely there is some college kid somewhere who needs a term project for their CS class - would be an interactive chart.
One imagines enable/disable buttons for each country, listed by name & flag, so you could combine, compare, etc.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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01:35:12am
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ikey, I would rather overhaul the entire approval books programming rather than ask Scott to attempt to create an interactive chart.
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"For 2015, face value for the USA was just $55.03 (about $110.00 catalog value).
"
Or $44.00 on the discount postage market!
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