Do you or have you ever collected postage stamps?

Ooooh look a panda!!!!! :D Sorry, got a bit distracted there.........yes, I did collect stamps when I was younger, my Nanna and Grandad used to get me the first day covers every year, but unfortunately I had to sell my collection a while ago. I did like looking through the collection and learning about which stamp was from where and which currency they used, it also showed what sort of things were important at the time and what was being commemorated.

I actually did for a while when I was about 8. I found a huge collection that my Nan and Grandad used to have and arranged them into a book that I made. I got bored really quickly though and got fed up with people making fun because I was being boring! I still have the book somewhere, it's got loads of really old stamps in it but I have no idea if they are rare or valuable!

........... yes.. i have more than 500 rare and old indian stamps.

I've collected them casually. The most formal I've been about it was to have a first cover collection going for awhile. The rest of the time, it was simply saving interesting-looking stamps (usually, not removed from envelopes, either, as they were sentimental to me). In the 1970s, I wrote to a couple of young men over in Africa who were cousins of a friend (a native of Sierra Leone and now a school principal here in Indiana) with whom I went to college. One of my pen-pals (Jim) sent me stamps from Sierra Leone that were really neat and interesting. One of them was quite large and shaped like the continent of Africa with sketchy details of the same filling the interior. I sent stamps to Jim, too, but I also sent him something even MORE American: a 45 rpm single of The Streak by Ray Stevens. I explained about the fad of streaking that had been going on, which inspired this novelty tune. He wrote back and thanked me for sending the record saying that he thought he was the only one in Sierra Leone with a copy of it and that lots of people were coming over to his house just to hear it. He said that it made him into a kind of celebrity.

I collect stamps that I use to mail stuff out with. As far as collecting stamps just to collect, I have never done that.

I still have my old stamp album! It's packed. I doubt they're worth anything. Aw now I want to go look through them. No, I didn't really learn anything, but you're right, they're all so beautiful! I just like to look at them.

NO I NEVER HAD I SUPOSED IT WOULD BE FUN!

I've still got my collection -- somewhere! I did learn that Magyar was Hungarian for Hungary, but I mainly had UK stamps, I even had some Asterix ones from the channel islands, I must find out where they've got to. I have a few pretty ones with different animals on too, I'm not sure if my collection is worth much or not.

I collected stamps as a child and, like you, I was often curious about what the strange writing said. I found knowing what the other countries were called in different languages interesting too.

I used to collect stamps as a child. I had a pretty good collection going, too. Somehow over the years my stamp collection disappeared, maybe when our basement flooded in 1982. I wish I had it now, because I would imagine that some of those stamps are worth money now.

I am an avid collector of US postage stamps. Mostly sheets and plate blocks now. Here is a nice sheet I am glad to own. Of course I will have to upload it again as a comment for it to look really good.

yes..it used to be my hobby in my childhood..but not now..:)

I inherited my grand father's collection when I was 8 and have been collecting ever since. I'm pretty shallow about it, that is, I only collect stamps that I find pretty and I don't really care about having the entire series, or every ridge on a stamp to consider keeping it. I did learn about other countries; for instance, I have a bunch of old German stamps from post WWI and WWII times which have new monetary values stamped over them, which shows the country's economic depression. I don't collect as much anymore mainly because I don't have the money to, but I still love looking at my 7 albums of stamps. They bring me back to my childhood.

No but my uncle used to collect them. He has like thousands of stamps. And he has passed them all onto me... hahahahaha..

Yes I collect stamps, I have about 30 000 different stamps.

nope - i collect coins though