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Bangladesh first issued its own postage stamps upon gaining independence in 1971. [1] A set of eight stamps, with various motifs including a map of the country, were issued. [2] [3] Shortly after, stamps in eight values were overprinted "Bangladesh Liberated" in both English and Bengali were prepared in the United Kingdom, but only three values were issued in Bangladesh.
The Indian Postal Agencies in The Persian Gulf Area, Sahara Publications Limited, London, 2001. ISBN 1-903022-11-8; Tomkins, Major T.L.C. The Persian Gulf, Stamp Collecting, London, 1950. Postage Stamps of Bahrain 1933–1983, Postal Directorate - Ministry of Transportation - State of Bahrain, Oriental Press of Bahrain, 1983.
(Occasionally, regular postage stamps have been used to fulfill a postage due function.) Postage due stamps (or "labels", to clarify that they have no value of their own) are not always affixed to individual letters; in the case of business mail, the total due might be summed, and the appropriate stamps added to the top letter in a bundle, or ...
Mint British stamps for use in Ceylon depicting King George V A mint high value 100 Rupee key type stamp of Ceylon. The first stamps for British Ceylon were issued on 1 April 1857. [1] [2] The stamp features a portrait of Queen Victoria and is brown in colour. It is a 6 pence value used to send a half ounce letter from Ceylon to England.
Throughout its history, there were various postal administrations with corresponding issues of postage stamps in Singapore. Its public postal service is spearheaded by Singapore Post (SingPost), a postal service and courier company that has been the country's designated Public Postal Licensee (PPL), providing both domestic and international ...
Tughra issue (1863) with red control band. On January 1, 1863, the Ottoman Empire issued its first adhesive postage stamps.It was the second independent country in Asia to issue adhesive stamps, preceded only by Russia in 1858, and two British colonies, Scinde District of India in 1852, India itself in 1854 and Ceylon in 1857.
The "Large Dragons", China's first postage stamps, 1878, of the Chinese: 郵政局; pinyin: yóuzhèngjú post office. The history of the postage stamps and postal history of China is complicated by the gradual decay of Imperial China and the years of civil war and Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s.
2000, 28 December - Canada issues the world's first 2 part personalized photo stamps, called "Picture Postage". 2007, 12 April - USPS issues a non-denominated stamp called the forever stamp [14] [15] 2011, 13 July - newly independent South Sudan issues its first postage stamps. 2015, 1 February - Megan Brennan appointed first female US ...