Do You Have A Cutt-Off Date For Your Collection? When?

I was curious as to when those of you who have a cut-off date end your collections. My cut-off date is 2000 for all of my collections except for the British Virgin Islands, which goes to the present. Some of my collections have a natural cut-off date, such as the British Solomon Islands when they became independent or Rhodesia when it became Zimbabwe.

I chose 2000 for several reasons. First, self adhesive stamps, which I hate with a passion, were starting to become more plentiful by this time. Also, I figured that stamps were 160 years old by then and I’d never run out of something to collect. The biggest reason, though, is the plethora of irrelevant new issues being released by the world’s postal administrations. The US has turned into the new Grenada when it comes to stamp issues and I wonder if they have not secretly signed an agreement with the philatelic agency Stamperija. Relevant stamps seem to be few and far between. We only issued two stamps to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and none for the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Occasionally the US will issue a stamp that interests me and I will pick it up, but rarely. These I just put into a stock book as my US albums end with 1999.