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White and blue Scinde Dawks. Postage stamps of Pakistan are those issued since Pakistan's independence in 1947. Pakistan Post has issued more than 600 sets and singles totalling more than 1300 stamps. Immediately after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the new Pakistan government was preoccupied with setting up the government so British ...
Four stamps were issued in se-tanent Block of Four throughout the sheet. Value: Rs. 1.50, Rs. 1.50, Rs. 1.50, Rs. 1.50 1987 –8 Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai – 8 October 1987; One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: 80p 1987 –9 Centenary of D.J. Sind Government Science College, Karachi – 7 November 1987
5.Birth Anniversary of Muhammad Ali Habib,1 Stamps Rs.2,21 April 2000. 6.30 Years of institute of Cost & Management Accounts of Pakistan, 2 Stamps Rs.2, Rs.15, 23 June 2000. 7.Ahmad E.H.Jaffer,1 Stamps Rs.10, 9 August 2000. 8.Sarfroshane Tehreeke Pakistan, 4 Stamps Rs.5 Each, 9 August 2000.
An 1866 stamp of Egypt. Carlo Meratti, an Italian, set up the first postal system in Egypt in 1821. This was a private enterprise which in 1842 was named "POSTA EUROPEA". The Egyptian Government, in 1857, sanctioned it to carry on all inland postal services. This concession was purchased by the Egyptian Government and on 1 January 1865 it took ...
Beginning in 1924, each year at least one stamp was issued in February to commemorate independence, a pattern that held steady, with few omissions, until the 1960s. Parliament House on the 15p of 1939. Afghanistan joined the Universal Postal Union in 1928; previously international mail required stamps of British India.
However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased ...
The postage stamps and postal history of Palestine emerges from its geographic location as a crossroads amidst the empires of the ancient Near East, the Levant and the Middle East. Postal services in the region were first established in the Bronze Age, during the rule of Sargon of Akkad, and successive empires have established and operated a ...
3. Denomination. 4. Country name. A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail). Then the stamp is affixed to the face or address-side of any item of mail —an envelope or other ...