European Stamp Prices & News
Europe stamp news, pictures, and stamp auction information
- Popular categories in this blog:
- 2008 issues
- 2009 issues
- Austria
- Birds
- Children's stamps
- Collecting tips
- Contests
- Dancing
- eBay
- Errors
- Euro 2008 soccer
- Europa 2008
- Europe-Stamps.com
- Fakes and forgeries
- Flowers
- France
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Hungary
- Hungary 2008
- Indonesia
- Joint issues
- Languages & Alphabets
- Maximum cards
- Netherlands
- New issues
- Poland
- PostEurope
- Romania
- Russia
- Scotland
- Selling stamps
- Soccer (football)
- Stamp Blog Reviews
- Stamp life
- Switzerland
Billing itself as “Interesting news, resources and links about stamps, stamp collecting and postal operations”, The Stamp Collecting Roundup (http://www.stampcollectingroundup.blogspot.com is a very clean-looking, pleasant blog featuring just that: posts not only about stamps and collecting, but about post offices and postal trends throughout the world.
Site owner Don Schilling is a marketing consultant by day and a stamp collector on the net. He is a member of two stamp clubs in California, as well as the American Philatelic Society.
The blog’s archives reach all the way back to March 2005; these days there is a post added daily, usually with a relevant picture and efficient, clear writing. Unusually for blogs, Schilling has his email address and a PO Box in the header, so contacting him is very easy.
Another benefit of the blog is its big list of stamp-related links. This is on the right sidebar, in the stock uncluttered-to-the-point-of-anodyne Blogspot layout.
A major drawback of the blog is that comments are disabled, totally severing any sense of community or reader participation (though there is an RSS feed of course). Despite this lack of warmth, the blog claims to be #5 in a list of the Top 50 stamp blogs as calculated by www.topstamp.co.uk.
The Stamp Collecting Roundup is a well-intentioned, well-executed blog for those interested not only in stamp collecting but postal news and philately in general.
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