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The 1918 Curtiss Jenny Air Mail Stamps were a set of three Airmail postage stamps issued by the United States in 1918. The 24¢ variety was the first of the stamps to be issued, and was in fact, America's first Airmail stamp. (The world's first airmail stamp was issued by Italy in 1917). The 16¢ and 6¢ varieties were issued later in the year ...
United States 15c certified mail stamp of 1955, postman, Scott catalog FA1. No further stamps were issued in this category. No further stamps were issued in this category. Registered mail is offered by the United States Postal Service as an extra for First Class or Priority Mail shipments.
In 1935, the Malayan Postal Union was created, which included the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States. Only postage due stamps were issued with the inscription "Malayan postal union", which were used in the colony and the individual states. Similar postage due stamps were used in Malayasia until 1966 and in Singapore until 1968.
1935 saw the first New Year's stamp, issued at the end of the year to pay postage on New Year's cards. It depicted Mount Fuji, as did the first of a long-running series of national parks issues, appearing in 1936. A new definitive series in 1942 reflected Japan's entry into World War II, with designs including war workers and saluting aviators ...
Arguably, New Zealand's rarest postage stamp is the 1949 HMS Vanguard threepence stamp, intended for issue as part of a set of four stamps (2d, 3d, 5d, and 6d) commemorating a royal visit. When the visit was cancelled, all copies of the stamps were ordered to be destroyed, but a small number—possibly as few as seven—of the 3d value survived ...
The Postal Service relies on CSAC to produce a balanced stamp program of approximately 25 – 30 stamp subjects each year. The annual stamp program is designed to reflect many different aspects of American culture and includes stamps honoring individuals, history, culture, sports, and science and technology.
Numbers without a preceding letter are regular issues of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. An Alphabet Letter preceding a stamp number denotes special purpose stamps or territorial stamps such as Provincial Overprints, Air Mail stamps, and Postage Due stamps. Letters following the stamp number are stamp errors and other special varieties.
In 1856, Mexico issued its first adhesive postage stamps, with "district overprints", a unique feature among postal systems worldwide, employed to protect from theft of postage stamps. In 1891, the postal and stamp issuing authority was created as an administrative division of the Secretaría de Comunicaciones (Secretariat of Communications).