Philately a common word you will find
under the section Hobbies. Well I used to collect stamps when I was little,
trading stamps from Srilanka for stamps of Vietnam and even coins for stamps. I
liked the triangular and 3D stamps of Yemen :). I think they are called
lenticular stamps.
I still remember a simple conversation
with a colleague in Australia on the joys of Philately and a few weeks later
she sent me an envelope which had a whooping 227 Australian and Papua New
Guinean stamps. God bless her soul!
I wanted to surprise my wife with her own personalized stamps for her birthday,it turns out the “entry form” needed her signature and so I had to be satisfied with giving one of my own passport photos. The whole process took just a couple of minutes + Rs 300/- ( it did include running around the GPO to find a Xerox vendor- for a Photocopy of my ID).Soon I had 12 of my own personalized stamps !
Hah , who said you have to be famous to have your photo on a stamp.
The other thing I did was become a
member of the Bangalore Philately Club, looking forward to my first stamps :).
Maybe I’ll even get a few scented stamps , I think they released three different fragrances — sandal, rose and jasmine.
