Skip to content

r/philately↗

philately: stamp collecting news and notes

A place to discuss stamps and postal history with fellow collectors. Looking for further philatelic discussion? Join the philatelic discord server: https://discord.com/invite/mPnGUEC

21k subscribers136 posts / mo in Sep 202686 authors / mosince 2009

r/philately has 21k members (+28% over the last 12 months). It gets about 136 posts a month from 86 people. Top topics: Stamp Collecting, Inherited Stamps Collection and German Stamps & Collectibles.

Free report

When to post on r/philately

You've used today's free reports

Visitors without an account can open 3 subreddit reports a day. The best time to post on r/philately, removal risk and the rest of the report are one step away.

Size and growth

How r/philately has grown

r/philately

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+28%in 12 months · +5.9% in 3 months · +1.7% in 1 month
Oct 202621k
Growing21k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/philately

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−54%vs Sep 2025 · −31% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026136
QuieterPeaked at 478 in Feb 2022
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/philately

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Stamp Collecting7.6%
  2. Inherited Stamps Collection6.9%
  3. German Stamps & Collectibles6.1%
  4. Stamp Identification Help5.8%
  5. Stamp Collecting5.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Colnect
  2. eBay
  3. United States Postal Service
  4. Delcampe
  5. Canada Post

The full report

Everything else about r/philately

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research