Believe it or not, although electronic Permits are valid whether or not you have a “real” Canadian Duck Stamp, about 75% of people purchasing the e-Permit still asked to have the physical Stamp mailed to them!
It seems somewhat curious that, in the ever-expanding digital and virtual world, so many people are taking the additional effort to check that box and receive a Stamp in the mail.
Understandably, some of those people checking the box may be stamp collectors whose primary interest is adding to their gallery of wildlife stamps. But there are many others, waterfowl hunters primarily, who have other reasons for wanting the real Stamp…
Read the full article, as published in the Canadian Outdoorsman magazine, Fall 2018 edition – page 50.
Top, left: 2018 Canadian Wildlife Habitat Conservation Stamp, © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Environment, 2018.
Top, right: credit F. Greenslade.