A postage stamp is adhesive paper evidence of a fee paid for postal services. Usually a small rectangle attached to an envelope, the stamp signifies the person sending it has fully or partly paid for delivery. The study of postage stamps is philately. Stamp collecting is the hobby of collecting stamps.
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Great British Postage Stamp Collecting
Postage Stamp Collecting is known as the hobby of Kings but you certainly do not need to be Royalty in order to collect stamps. Anybody can collect.
One of the beauties of collecting Postage stamps is that there is no set way to collect and there is an enormous variety of things available to collect. You can collect by country, themes, reigns, commonwealth, postal history, postmarks the list is endless.
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