[metal] stamps

How old is your encyclopedia? Their main businesses are tourism, cigarettes, cigars and furniture. Don't know how can you think that a countries major export product can be something like stamps? This is europe and not the dessert and we live in the 21st century too. Jan

Bier de St> I read in an encyclopedia that stamps are one of the chief exports of

Andorra and other small countries (San Marino springs to mind) raise considerable amounts of income for their country by producing short runs of special edition postage stamps to feed the needs of philatalists all over the world. Many philatalists collect stamps with a theme such as those depicting animals, butterflies or literary figures. I live in Spain, and the local Post Office always has a wide selection of special edition stamps on display for purchase by collectors. Ordinary postage stamps are self adhesive and printed with the value as they come out of a small machine on the counter or the self-service point. Jo

This is helpful info. Might be interesting to see how all the upgrades in today's delivery system with customizable stamps will effect this commodity.