The entrance to the Israel Philatelic Service’s building, appropriately located on Hadoar (The Post) Street in Jaffa, resembles a fortified compound. Seated behind the glass partition is a guard who joylessly takes my ID card and exchanges it for a visitors’ badge. “Wait here for someone to come and escort you. No one walks around this building on their own,” he says.
The atmosphere is...
- By Michael Hide
- 16 Oct 2012
- 10:18PM
Nice article. The only part I didn't agree with was the last bit. "The true collectors are apparently an extinct breed" being far from the truth. Because of my lack of Hebrew I do not go to a stamp club in Israel although I have done in the past. But that apart, I am active with stamps as many hours as my family and work allow and would most definitely classify myself and many Stamp collecting friends 'True Collectors".
thank you
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