Stamp collecting got really big in the 1930s and 1940s, due to the fact that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was a stamp collector himself. Into the 1980s, stamp and first day cover collecting was still fairly large; I feel it was even bigger than coin collecting.
By the 1990s-2000s, stamp collecting started dying out because people could not keep up with the massive number of different stamps the USPS was issuing. Then with the advent of the internet, and electronic payments severely reducing the amount of bills people needed to pay by mail, stamp collecting fell even further.
Steve
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Successful BST deals with eliotdeutsch, gonzo, jimivintage, Leon, lharris3600, markf31, Mrc32, sb1, seablaster, shammus, veloce.
Current Wantlist:
1909 Obak Howard (Los Angeles) (no frame on back)
1910 E90-2 Gibson, Hyatt, Maddox
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