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Stamp marking Universal postage, 1901, featuring Zealandia. On 1 January 1901, New Zealand introduced one penny universal postage from New Zealand to any country in the world willing to deliver them. Australia, the United States, France and Germany would not accept such letters, fearful of having to reduce their own postal charges to match.
The Scinde Dawk of 1852, the first postage stamp of India is a round red sealing wafer.. India has a long and varied postal history and has produced a large number of postage stamps.
Postal system established in 1883. The first real postal service was established in Siam in 1880. [3] Prince Bhanurangsi Savangwongse was appointed by King Chulalongkorn in 1881 to set up and run the service, due to his earlier experience in running newspaper delivery services.
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.
Postage stamp issued for Bangkok. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the British post office in Bangkok, Thailand. The earliest recorded mail from Bangkok dates back only to 1836 when American missionary Dan Beach Bradley sent a letter to his father in a stampless cover.
1953 stamps of Northern Rhodesia marking the birth centennial of Cecil Rhodes. Northern Rhodesia was created in 1911 from territory administered by the British South Africa Company, becoming an official British protectorate in 1924. On 1 April 1925, Northern Rhodesia issued its first stamps.
On December 7, 1853, Spanish Governor General Antonio de Urbiztondo ordered the establishment of prepaid postage for all mail, beginning 1 February 1854. The first stamps were issued that day [1] in four denominations: the 5 quartos, the 10 quartos, the 1 real, and the 2 reales. These stamps depicted a profile of an effigy of Spanish Queen ...
The U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13 were the first such stamps issued by the U.S. Post Office Department and consisted of twelve denominations to pay the postage on parcels weighing 16 ounces and more, with each denomination printed in the same color of "carmine-rose".
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