Is stamp collecting a dead hobby?
By louievill
@louievill (28851)
Philippines
November 21, 2010 11:30am CST
hi all, just want to ask if stamp collecting is a dead hobby, I remember the time when people my age joined hobby clubs in grade school and stamp collecting would only place second to coin collecting. with the advent of the computer and internet age is the hobby dying? With the fast transfer of information, many young people today rely on email and text messages to get message thru instead of conventional mail , most young people today have seen stamps but really don't care.Stamps are important because it show cases a nation's culture but all that can now be all searched in the internet. Do you think stamp collecting is a dead hobby? Give me your opinion.
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10 responses
@markguyana (19)
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16 Jun 17
It is not. The present generation just need some introduction and encouragement
@warvial (1146)
• Singapore
22 Nov 10
Now that you mentioned it!
I just remembered me and my sis have an album of stamps which is nowhere to be found! Come to think about it, the last time I removed a stamp from the envelope was years ago! Really love those days where it's so exciting receiving snail mails and then tallying the stamp on the envelope with our collection.
Now that most of the stuffs can be done via the internet and with the stamp collection album hidden somewhere, it's really seems to be moving towards the end of stamps collection for me.
@ersmommy1 (12588)
• United States
22 Nov 10
It could be! I only know of one stamp collector. He is my grandfather. And I don't think he collects that much anymore.
@frontvisions101 (16043)
• Philippines
22 Nov 10
All i can say is only a few does it nowadays. I don't really know the reason for collecting stamps in the first place.
@huqh123 (182)
• China
22 Nov 10
I don't think stamp collecting is a bad habit. hehe, i still held many stamps. i like them. yes, it is a fact that many people don't use the conventional letters. but we know that postal service is everywhere. In a long time, no one can replace them. collecting is a good hobby. you can see many cultures from the past to modern time.
@puccagirl (7294)
• Israel
21 Nov 10
I guess so, I rarely hear of people who do it anymore. But I knew tons of people who did it when I was a kid. So I suppose you are right...
What a shame though! It is quite a lovely hobby and I used to do it too, as a kid, to be honest. I do not know where my collection is now though... (I had quite a big one, even)
@Jiabsa (511)
• India
22 Nov 10
Stamp collection is one of the interesting hobby especially for school children. It was my main hobby when i was child. I lost this interest when i became adult. Collecting stamps and keeping them in the stamp albums give children a particular kind of enjoyment. Recently my child also started this hobby.
@amore2208 (67)
• Philippines
22 Nov 10
well its been a while since i heard people talking about stamp collecting. my uncle used to do it, he has an album of thousands of stamps he's been collecting while he was still young. with today's generation, youth may not be that enthusiast to choose stamp collecting as a hobby, first and foremost, posts are getting much fewer ever since birth of email or the net to be exact.
