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Decline of a hobby that was once fit for a king
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From Barrie Bertram.
I DO not know whether the Sunday Telegraph enjoys the same extent of readership in Jersey similar to that of your fine JEP here in Caton, but if not, your many readers may be interested to hear some of Simon Heffer’s comments from the latest issue (3 January), in which he discusses postage stamp issues in the UK. I offer two quotes from his article:
‘The Royal Mail’s tawdry issues and designs are making philately, once a hobby fit for a king, into a slightly seedy investment business’, and ‘Pumping out stamps to mark all sorts of pointless things and events is what banana republics do; and we must try to cling to the belief that we are not there yet’.
Of course, one should not draw parallels between Jersey Post and the Royal Mail solely on the basis of the article, even though I had sadly discontinued my account with Jersey’s Philatelic Bureau last year, for the very reasons that Mr Heffer cites. But perhaps one’s views might differ had he applied the term ‘flying banana republic’?
22 Hornby Road, Caton, Lancs.
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