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2. Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States

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   The first Confederate Postage stamps were issued and placed in circulation on October 16, 1861, five months after postal service between the North and South had been suspended. [ 9] The first postage stamp issued by the Confederate States (1861) was a 5¢ green depicting Jefferson Davis.

3. Minkus catalogue - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States

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   Postal service in the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps.

5. Alex Trebek honored with postage stamp - AOL

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   The U.S. Postal Service announced Friday that Trebek will be featured on a new postage stamp to be released July 22. “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings also revealed the stamp on Friday’s episode ...

6. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. U.S. postage stamp to honor civil rights icon John Lewis - AOL

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   The late congressman and civil rights giant John Lewis will be honored with a postage stamp in 2023, the U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday. The design for the stamp uses a photograph taken by ...