[Dx-qsl] best way to save postage stamps

[Peter Dougherty]

At 13:38 11-05-04, FireBrick wrote:

>Sorry for the off topic.
>I don't REALLY collect stamps but I'm saving all the return Air Mail 
>envelopes with
>foreign stamps as maybe my grandchildren will get the bug.
>
>I use a letter opener to slit the top of the envelope.
>Is this the best way, does the envelope have any value or just the stamp.
>
>If a envelope like this one from Iceland just has a machine stamped 
>postage, should it be
>saved also?

I also now save any stamped envelope I receive, more as a keepsake than 
anything else. I stamp a RECEIVED rubber stamp on the front to mark the 
date, call and modes/bands then put it away. I look through every so often, 
just as I do my QSL collection (both of which are now sizeable).



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