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The USPS will bump the cost of a first-class Forever stamp to 73 cents on July 14, a 5% jump from the previous price point and 10 cents above the price at the start of 2023.
The postal service was started on 4 August 1883 with one post office building, called Praisaneeyakarn (Thai: ไปรษณียาคาร) on the bank of Chao Phraya River near Ong Ang Canal. [3] The first postage stamps—the Solot Series—and a postcard were issued on the same day. [4]
The Austrian Empire, between 1816 and 1867. The first postage stamp issue of the Empire of Austria was a series of imperforate typographed stamps featuring the coat of arms. At first they were printed on a rough handmade paper, but after 1854 a smooth machine-made paper was used instead.
A Moroccan stamp, dating to the early 20th century. The inscription in Arabic mentions the price of the stamp, 5 mouzouna, which is a subdivision of the Hassani Rial, the local Moroccan currency used in the 19th and early 20th century. A French stamp surcharged for the French Post Office in Morocco, 1891
The early years of the 20th Century saw the development of technologically and commercially viable stamp-vending and stamp-affixing machines; and this phenomenon had important effects upon methods by which several stamps in the 1902 series were produced--particularly as regards perforation.
In total 20 different postage stamps, 5 different newspaper stamps and 12 different postage due stamps were overprinted with POCZTA POLSKA in two lines with a diamond shape or an ornament between. The stamps were made available for sale from 10 January 1919. [30] The following stamps and quantities of postage stamps were produced and issued. [31]
U.S. 2¢ stamp of 1938 with New York precancel, Scott No. 806, PSS type 71. A precanceled stamp, or precancel for short, is a postage stamp that has been legitimately cancelled before being affixed to mail. [1] [2] A number of nations of the world use precancels, typically in the form of an overprint on definitive series stamps.
A 2013 stamp of Lebanon A German postal cover sent from the German postal office in Beirut on 14 May 1900 Beirut Ottoman Post Office 1900s. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Lebanon, formerly known as Liban.