More on the shaky future of PhotoStamps, from the Washington Post.
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doc- Fear of postage stamps is a growing mental health problem that is sweeping the nation and may soon reach epidemic proportions. Evidently there are millions of people leaving their mail untouched in the box while they quiver with anxiety over the prospect of finding a high school yearbook picture of a famous psychopath that will cause them to start hearing voices. If you are one of these people go immediately to a hospital and seek professional help.
Smoking Gun ought to do a story on their own relationship to the corrupt world of stamp- collecting-as-investment. Scarcity is the name of that game. and now there will be a scarcity of Photostamps with adult images. William Bastone's closet full of these stamps may become a treasure trove.
I do believe that the photostamps are not of much interest as the cost can be prohibitive for most people. I for one would not be inclined to order photostamps as I feel that they are a waste of money & I can do better thinga with the money I have & will get in the future. I have no objections to the purchase of stamps that are issued by the postal service. At least they put a picture of a person who has truly did something that was honorable & worthwhile. These kinds of stamps I have no objection to use & purchase especially when the person is one that I care about.
The philatelists at Smoking Gun should be forced to divest themselves of all Photostamp holdings. Their sleazy scheme to corner the market must not succeed.
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Fear of postage stamps is a growing mental health
problem that is sweeping the nation and may soon reach epidemic proportions. Evidently there are millions of
people leaving their mail untouched in the box while they quiver with anxiety over the prospect of finding a high school yearbook picture of a famous psychopath
that will cause them to start hearing voices. If you
are one of these people go immediately to a hospital
and seek professional help.
Smoking Gun ought to do a story on their own
relationship to the corrupt world of stamp-
collecting-as-investment. Scarcity is the name
of that game. and now there will be a scarcity
of Photostamps with adult images. William Bastone's closet full of these stamps may become a treasure trove.
I do believe that the photostamps are not of much interest as the cost can be prohibitive for most people. I for one would not be inclined to order photostamps as I feel that they are a waste of money & I can do better thinga with the money I have & will get in the future. I have no objections to the purchase of stamps that are issued by the postal service. At least they put a picture of a person who has truly did something that was honorable & worthwhile. These kinds of stamps I have no objection to use & purchase especially when the person is one that I care about.
The philatelists at Smoking Gun should be forced
to divest themselves of all Photostamp holdings.
Their sleazy scheme to corner the market must
not succeed.
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