Always look forward to the Olympics.

When the 1984 Summer OLYMPICS were in Los Angeles, I drove a friend to Pomona where he was attending CalPoly-Pomona.... along the freeway, there were a few signs for turn offs to OLYMPIC events.... my buddy wondered what might happen if we stopped and took one of those signs for a souvenir....? We didn't. Neither one of us had any desire to see what the inside of the LA County Jail... ;-)

Oh how lovely it would be to win the give away and find a special spot in my collections to have those lovely Olympic stamps😅

I have a sport topical collection which I believe those Olympic stamps would be a great addition. ❤

Zach nice french stamps. Some pause!

You got a nice variety of stamps from Zach to enjoy. French stamps are beautiful, especially the earlier ones. It is lovely to just even look at them. I became interested in French stamps that won the Grand Prix de l'Art Philetalique, and those are exceptionally beautiful. Thanks for the video, Rob. 🙂

I have a question for you. I collect US Plate Blocks. A couple of months ago I was at a stamp show and one dealer had 2 Canadian Plate Blocks from 1939. I did not realize that Canada had Plate Blocks but they were very inexpensive so I purchased them. Now I am thinking about collecting Canadian Plate Blocks. Do you know anything about them or do you have any for sale or trade? I only collect up through 1969.

Wow, my route in Texas delivering over 300 packages a day and 72 regular hours a week in this Texas over 100 degree heat with no air conditioner.

Having seen the devastation wreaked by Beryl in the Caribbean and the problems in Texas, I hope you just get a bit of cooling rain. Fingers crossed!

Lovely photos from Idamarie and Charmaine - really beautiful. Sorry, Rob, I should have warned you that most of the poems were written in a sort of northern English dialect where they drop their Hs and confuse was and were. Still, you did well reading them. Glad you enjoyed them.

Excellent! This was such a good idea of you to feature artists, Rob! Well done! The artists are very talented and I enjoyed the video very much. Stephen's poems and stories are so interesting, pleasant and creative. Thanks to everyone involved!

Hope Beryl isnt too mean to you.

Charmaine and Stephen nice!

My photo!!

Thank you for featuring my photos and the compliments on my photograpy, I appreciate it very much.

Really good video and super talented folk, I will send you something very soon 😊

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Oh, how cool! congratulations on the debut, on the first issue of this column! super!

Stadium covers very nice. Postal museum in dc has stadium chairs in the baseball exhibit.

Charles so generous.

Hi Rob! Thanks for a nice viewer gift video. So special to have generous viewers send you various wonderful gifts. Awwww, so cute, the postman hedgehog! Perfect for you! All the other things were interesting as well.

thank you for sharing your latest viewer stamp haul ! Stay cool.... thats what I'm doing..... yesterday was 121*F here in the low desert of southern California.

There was a movie made about Boys Town in 1938 it is based on Father Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of underprivileged boys in a home/educational complex that he founded and named "Boys Town" in Nebraska. It stars Spencer Tracy as Father Edward J. Flanagan, and Mickey Rooney. Great movie and wonderful story.

Oh wow never thought i see my home city on youtube lol

Boystown issues seals every year but just like Easter Seals they are not listed in Scott. Scott only lists Christmas Seals. I see you got an Apollo-Soyuz Mr Zip block of 4. I love Mr Zip and am collecting all his blocks of 4. There are 4 different Mr Zip positions on stamps.

Hi Rob, cool stamps and postcards. Like you, I think the Hedgehog postcard rules! A couple of notes, just in case they're useful. 06:14 I would class this as a commemorative cover rather than a First Day Cover. A first day cover is one where the stamp is postmarked on its first day of issue and I suspect the stamp was issued prior to the date stamp on the cover. I'm not an expert on the QEII Wilding stamps, and the stamp on the cover MAY be a variety issued on that date, but I'd go with commemorative cover as it seems to be more about the Mayflower and less about the stamp. Still nice to have though. (The postmark says it's the maiden voyage, so this would be of the Mayflower replica which was built.) 08:08 If I remember correctly, the box attached on the right of the pillar box was used for dispensing stamps. You put your money into one of the slots and a stamp or booklet of stamps would fall down to the little window which you could open to get your stamps - just like any drinks machine these days, though with somewhat less technology involved. It also looks like this one might give change. These were relatively common when I lived in England (briefly) as a young lad. I don't remember having seen any the last time I was in the UK, so definitely a piece of postal history there.

Hi That Dad Guy, I would say Norman Rockwell is known as an classic Illustrator. -Bob

It's so nice to receive unexpected gifts! Super :)

Start your day with that dad guy

8am usa ytube release.

Looks like our friend Steve has your question answered. I had mentioned about the same on my World Refugee Day post on IG not too long ago. Do have a look.

Hi Rob, nice lot of stamps you got from Alena. I found that stamp from Cyprus with the different denominations and currencies very interesting. Thanks for showing us the stamps she gave to you!

Great video classic cars will never die...❣

Nice airmail stamps and vintage stamp album sheets.

I didn’t know the facts about the Olympic flag. So thanks for sharing

Hi Rob, nice selection of stamps. A few notes on the Cypriot stamps. Please note that the name Cyprus appears on all recent stamps in the three official languages of Cyprus: Greek, Turkish and English. The reason will hopefully be understood as you read on: 05:41 These are Cypriot Refugee Welfare Tax stamps. I was putting something together about these for you, but I'll give you some info here. For many years the population of Cyprus was a mix of ethnic Greeks and ethnic Turks, who migrated there dure the period of Cyprus's inclusion in the Ottoman Empire. Just prior to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Britain took administrative control of the island. In consequent years there was a movement for Cyprus to become a part of Greece. This was rejected by the Turkish Cypriot population, but the movement continued after Independence in 1960, eventually leading to tensions and clashes between the two communities until the island was partitioned into Turkish Northern Cyprus and Greek Southern Cyprus in 1974. The partitioning led to many ethnic Greeks fleeing south while ethnic Turks moved north. Since that time it has been mandatory to put these refugee tax stamps on all mail in the Greek part of Cyprus. The first such stamp was created by overprinting a definitive stamp and a little later a stamp with a mother and child was produced. Several years later, the iconic image that is on most of these stamps was produced. Later on, as stocks of these ran out new versions were made with the same design, but with different coloured backgrounds. So, the 1974 that is on all of these stamps refers to the year of partition. To find which year the stamps were issued, you need to look at the date in the lower right-hand corner of the stamps. Currently new tax stamps are released every year. Money raised by the use of these stamps goes toward housing for refugees for the north, education for the children of refugees, etc. So despite the fact that the partitioning occurred 50 years ago, these stamps still have to be attached to all mail (letters, postcards, parcels, etc.) posted in Cyprus. Originally the stamps cost 1 Cypriot cent (there were 100 cents to the Cypriot Pound, worth more than the British pound!). When the Euro was introduced, this became 2 Euro cents. 06:15 The 10m stamp was the original value with this design. At the time there were 1000 mils to the Cyprus Pound. This later changed to the aforementioned 100 cents to the pound, so the 10m and 1c were equivalent in value and again this is roughly equivalent to 2 Euro cents.

Stamp vs stamp ..what a fun idea! I just stumbled across your channel and look forward to watching the rest of these :) I also plan to watch Smoky's side of these as well!

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Very nice postcards as always. I liked the ornamentation - the sea theme washi type is beautiful. "That Dad Guy Washi tape Style" - it has a nice ring to it. 🙂Kind regards to you, Rob. 🙂

💥 another portion of joy))

there is a good selection of postcards, and I really liked the vashi tapes on the marine theme))) super)

Great video, i couldn’t make it there this year, thanks for sharing

I love seeing videos of my hometown

VW look nice.

Canadians love cars.

re-play crew saying hi :D

Excellent haul. Hubba hubba!

I got my Anne of Green Gables card. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I even got the famous washi tape corner and hedgehog sticker. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Good washi tape combo.

I had several cards this past week that had used your washi tape style. You are such an influencer!