In the post today...

[mindlikeasieve]

Look what just arrived via First Class Mail for me! My dearest friend Parisa (of PftP fame) sent this to me along with a note: It suddenly struck me that you should haave this instead of me - being the true SF Historian in our family!

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While I don't think our stamps are necessarily bad I have to say that the offerings of the US are an additional incentive to send mail. I remember receiving postcards with stamps showing Frank Sinatra, Micky Mouse, Cary Grant and The Flash.

[mindlikeasieve]

It is so nice to receive things via post, I think. I would blame the lack of letters I get these days on the internet, but really, most of my friends never wrote me letters before the internet either!

I am unfamiliar with German stamps, but I have a small collection of U.S. stamps that I started back in the early 1980s. My favorites are the ones that feature writers. But the actors are a close second. And then, every once in a while they come up with something really cool and unique like the Black Cinema stamps that came out last year and that I posted here ---> http://mindlikeasieve.livejournal.com/138958.html

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I also collected stamps when I was a kid. My father still does. :)

German stamps usually commemorate all kinds of anniversaries, of events, people, places, inventions, etc. The choices are quite diverse and they often look nice, but be we don't have a lot of stamps related to what I'd call popular culture, like classic actors or movie related. Which is too bad since I think it would at least marginally entice younger people to write more.