My friend likes to collect stamps. He has some that are 100 years old!
That is awesome. Stamp collecting is a great hobby as there are always new and different stamps available.
Yeah, I am always interested in the different kinds of stamps used around the world.
Me too, I would love to have some old stamps that were issued in the 1840 when some one the worlds first stamps were issued.
I think the US started using stamps with the Postal Service was started. The Pony Express was amazing.
Pony Express
The Pony Express was a mail service delivering messages, newspapers, and mail using relays of horse-mounted riders that operated from April 3, 1860, to October 1861 between Missouri and California in the United States of America.
Operated by Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express Company, the Pony Express was a great financial investment to the U.S. During its 18 months of operation, it reduced the time for messages to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to about 10 days. It became the West
not as if he said, "I must collect stamps so I, Paul, can obtain pleasure". Collecting stamps is not just a means toward pleasure. He simply likes collecting stamps, therefore (indirectly) acquiring pleasure.
This paradox is often reversed to illustrate that pleasure and happiness cannot be reverse-engineered. If for example you heard that collecting stamps was very pleasurable, and began a stamp collection as a means towards this happiness, it would inevitably be in vain. To achieve happiness, you must