Perhaps someone will say that philately is a boring occupation, in part, this is true, but only if you put your stockbooks with postage stamps in a closet and forgot about them for many years.
But, if you're constantly on the lookout for new stamp sets, or if you're restocking sets that weren't complete, it can't be boring.
I have not heard anyone say that the oriental bazaar is a boring business, fierce bargaining, exchange options, weighing the pros and cons, there is a lot of dynamics and positive in this, in case of a successful deal.
Sometimes, it is very difficult to find the desired postage stamp in good condition. It would be more true to say that every philatelist is looking for postage stamps in perfect condition, not in good condition.
Yes, especially during a pandemic, when philatelic gatherings are banned, and flea markets are extremely rare, and it’s not certain that you will find postage stamps there.
Buying postage stamps today is no easier than finding strawberries in the middle of a flowering meadow.
I'm not talking about buying through Internet sites, such options for me lose the sports component, lol.
Look at this meadow.
There is a lot of greenery and flowers around, but there, at their foot, there is a red carpet of small, but very tasty and fragrant strawberries.
It was in this place that I had to lie on my stomach and take a photograph that will open the door for the next postage stamp from the Wild Berries series, issued in the USSR in 1982.
As you already understood, on a postage stamp with a face value of 32 kopecks, we see Wild Strawberries (Fragaria vesca).
I can safely say that, now, this series is complete, I have harvested my crop.
I must say that for Soviet times, 32 kopecks was a lot of money, considering that for the cost of a hundred postage stamps you could buy yourself a gold chain.
For 32 kopecks, you could buy two loaves of bread and make a dozen trips on a trolleybus, buy a hundred grams of doctor's sausage, go to the morning screening at the cinema three times and make a phone call at a telephone booth.
Information about this postage stamp:
Country: USSR.
Subject: # Flora, # Berries, # USSR.
Series: Wild berries.
Name: Wild Strawberries (Fragaria vesca).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 32 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5159.
Episode release date: March 10, 1982 - October 30, 1992.
Perforation: comb 12 x 12¼.
Postage stamp size: 30 x 42 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 5,100,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.14 - $ 0.22.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.03 - $ 0.11.
Photo: original from 
Clean postage stamp
To be continued!
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