Stamp convention

Sign on the Metro reads:

-Come to this once-a-decade stamp show to see the world's greatest rarities! Tens of millions of dollars worth of stamps and envelopes!
-Washington Convention Center

I'm not entirely surprised this event happens only once a decade. Seriously, how much interest can be drummed up for postage over 10 years?

And what does a postal exhibition really do, anyway? Who gets that excited over licking paper? (LSD users are not encouraged to answer)

Moreover, who gets excited over stamps that were never used to do what they were originally designed for? They just sit there. It's like going to a toilet convention and marveling over bowls that were never flushed (ew).

And just what are these rarities of the stamp world??? (answer: the people who find this stuff interesting)

And tens of millions of dollars worth of unused stamps?!? WTF?!!!? The USPS made out like bandits on that one. It's a convention that celebrates all of the paid-for-but-not-delivered services of the postal system.

Do we pay for a meal and walk out before it's arrived? NO. Do we pay for a concert and leave before the opening number? NO.

The stamp must be used if it is bought. Lick it and stick it people.