Caution advised

Several people warned me not to be too trusting when I started to exchange stamps. 'If the other person contacts you, he should send the stamps first', I was repeatedly advised. That sounded like good advice. It may not have been applied by the next person I was contacted by.

I don't know much about Uwe Jarstof. Not yet. All I know is that he lives in Germany, and he agreed to send me 50 German stamps as an initial trade. He has had some bad experiences with exchanging, so he insisted on this initial limit to the number of stamps. Later, when we know each other, we may exchange more.

This has been my eighth exchange. So far so good, touch wood.