P hilately is the most popular form of collecting there is.
There is certainly no shortage of material for practitioners of the hobby to scour the world for. More than 10,000 new ones appear each year. The total in Finland exceeded 40 in 1999 and the first year of the new millennium will at least match that. Although up to four million copies of a special stamp can be printed and there is no limit to the number in the cases of some general ones, little Finland's stamps represent only a drop in the global philately ocean. Nevertheless philatelists who appreciate specialities and originality find them interesting.