In response to my request, for his second exchange with me (and my 26th altogether), my friend Vaclav sent me 100 Japanese stamps. He wrote for me to select those that I could use, and to send the rest back. Even though I have well over a thousand stamps from that country, 79 of Vaclav's stamps were new to me, so naturally I kept them!
I still owe Vaclav from the time before. He had most of the stamps I sent then, so this time I worked from his want list of recent New Zealand stamps (Vaclav collects NZ stamps after 1953 - the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II?). 
It's a pity that stamps are produced so quickly today. It took me ages to plough through NZ's recent decades. Really, there are too many. I personally will keep the later issues of this country, but I won't actively hunt after them. 1970 is my cut-off date.
As for Japanese stamps, though, the more the merrier. On the same day that Vacav's Japanese stamps arrived, I received another letter with more of the same!
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