Yes, I went over to the dark side! I became a deltiologist! What a strange word, right? But it is simple, it is a person who collects postcards. Where did they come up with a name like that? Well it turns out that the word originated in 1945 from a collaboration between Professor Rendell Rhoades of Ohio and colleagues...

In case you haven't heard the news, in IBRA in May, I got my very first international Large Gold. This is something I have been working towards for decades, literally, so I am a happy chappy! As far as my YouTube channel is concerned, I have started doing some shorts which range from less than a minute to two minutes....

We as stamp collectors deal with stamps, that is why we are known as stamp collectors. As children and many adults, when we get a letter, we tend to remove the stamp from the envelope and put the stamp in our albums and that's it. So what happens when we find a letter like this? As a stamp collector, this letter seemingly...