What is stamp collecting? Who are the people who collect stamps?

collecting stamps is an elegant cultural activity with collecting stamps as its main content. Through the collection, arrangement, appreciation and research of stamps and other philatelic products, people can get all kinds of spiritual nourishment from the magnificent art treasure house, enrich their knowledge and cultivate their ability to appreciate art. Stamp collecting, along with sports and tourism, has become one of the three major hobbies that are popular in the world today.

Stamp collecting has a wide range of objects, including tickets, envelopes, stamps, stamps, discounts, postal supplies and postal historical materials.

tickets: according to different purposes, they are divided into commemorative stamps, special stamps, ordinary stamps, airmail stamps, unpaid stamps, donated stamps, souvenir sheets, sheetlets, promissory notes and mini-stamps.

envelopes: mainly envelopes with postage affixed or printed, including first day cover, doomsday cover, actual mail cover, maiden voyage cover, Spring Festival cover, postage cover, etc.

photos: that is, all kinds of postcards, including postage postcards, limit postcards, limited postcards, art postcards, New Year postcards and so on.

stamp: refers to the stamp stamped by the postal department on mail and philatelic products, including ordinary postmark, commemorative postmark, scenic postmark, agency postmark and special postmark.

discount: that is, stamp discount. Affixed with stamps, stamped with commemorative postmarks, and printed with patterns related to stamps on the passbook.

postal articles and postal historical materials: refers to postal documents, airmail labels, registered labels, postal vouchers, sealing paper, parcel sheets, postage stamps, express delivery labels, seals of insured letters, and various postal materials and official documents.