After a badly needed summer break, we're back folks!—and rounding out Season 1 with a few more episodes before summer's end. We're thrilled to be talking this week with special guest Matthew Cassetta: an O.G. Postcrosser, globe-trotting naturalist and birder, former president of the D.C.-based Washington Stamp Collectors Club (IYKYK), and all around veteran of topical collecting. Matt also spent two decades in the U.S. Foreign Service focused on science, conservation, and related issues in diplomacy, and has lived (and collected!) in places as far flung as Fiji, East Africa, Madagascar, and Belgium. We chat all about his journey in the hobby, his expertise in birds-on-stamps, and how he got started Postcrossing in the very early days. We hope you enjoy.

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