In this article we give you some tips on how to collect your postage stamps.

Follow some of our tips and we guarantee that you will have lots of postage stamps as your collections.

1.) Buy your stamps. It is always a good idea to spend a little amount of money for your collections in order to get your stamps regularly. Just by doing this, you will soon build up an impressive collection of stamps, in a little amount of time.

Postage stamps are not that expensive anyway. Recent stamp issues are available in the Post Office near you; you can always purchased stamps issued over the last few months. You can also look for the right stamp dealers in your area; most of them have huge collections. Find some that you like. Remember that the value of old postage stamps is much higher than others.

2.) Exchange stamps with friends. Ask your friends if someone are interested to exchange stamps with you. If not, ask stamp dealers if they want to exchange for some of your collections. But first, choose stamps that are duplicate, exchange the other one for a stamp that you still don't have. Go for the older stamps. You can offer a greater number of stamps in exchange for an old stamp.

Old posted stamps are hard to find. Don't worry - you can always buy stamps that are recently issued. One way to publicize your passion for stamps is by blogging. Create a blog about your desire to exchange stamps with other postage stamp collectors, this way, you reach out farther, many famous stamp collectors from all over the world may see your posting and maybe will contact you for stamp exchange.

- Mrs. Nagalakshmi Tadakaluri, Philatelist.

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