Re: All we have is postage stamps...
There you have the opposite problem.
When I was a youth we all used to collect the new (UK) stamps as they came out and religiously added them to our collections. At that time there were only a few to collect so the cost was fine. The appearance of them looked as if they were worth something too. Nowadays they bring out new issues so frequently that nobody bothers collecting them any more.
You are in the U.S. by the sounds of it, where there is a similar problem, compounded by many of them (the definitives) appearing like scraps of torn paper. Patriotism is one thing, but why are there so many American flags depicted on USA stamps? Postage stamps are used by many countries as tourist and commerece marketing opportunities: the French places of interest series being a classic example. It's not as if the USA is short of subjects to depict.
There was historically the time when postage stamps were accepted as currency in the USA:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gault
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