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One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: Rs. 3 1987 –14 Radio Pakistan New Concept of Broadcasting – 31 December 1987; One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: 80p 1988. 1988 – 1 Birth Centenary of Jamshed Nusserwanjee Mehta – 7 January 1988; 1988 – 2 World Leprosy Day – 31 January 1988
Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.
The first Scott catalogue was a 21-page pamphlet with the title Descriptive Catalogue of American and Foreign Postage Stamps, Issued from 1840 to Date, Splendidly Illustrated with Colored Engravings and Containing the Current Value of each Variety. It was published in September 1868 by John Walter Scott, an early stamp dealer in New York, and ...
On January 26, 2014, the postal service raised the price of First-class postage stamps to 49 cents. Rates for other mail, including postcards and packages, also increased. [52] Starting in 2005, the USPS offered customers the ability to design and purchase custom stamps, which were offered through third-party providers, like Stamps.com and Zazzle.
[1 Stamp Rs.5, 8 October 2006] 10 .Medicinal Plants of Pakistan ( Chamomilla & Aloe Vera) [2 Stamp Rs.5 Each, 30 October 2006] 11 .International Anti-Corruption Day [1 Stamp Rs.5, 9 December 2006] 12 .10 Years of Baltit Fort Heritage Trust [1 Stamp Rs.15, 20 December 2006] 13 .Centenary Celebration of the Muslim League 1906-2006 [8 Stamp Rs.4 ...
Islamic banking and finance has its own products and services that differ from conventional banking. [ 1][ 2] These include Mudharabah ( profit sharing ), Wadiah (safekeeping), Musharakah ( joint venture ), Murabahah (cost plus finance), Ijar ( leasing ), Hawala (an international fund transfer system), Takaful (Islamic insurance), and Sukuk ...
The Minkus catalogue was a comprehensive of American and worldwide postage stamps, edited by George A Tlamsa and published by Krause Publications. In the United States Minkus competed with the Scott catalogue as a distant second. Generally sold through department store stamp collecting departments, it had its own system of numbering stamps ...
After increasing the price of a first-class postage stamp to 68 cents in January, the U.S. Postal Service is planning to increase the cost again in the coming days.. The USPS will bump the cost of ...