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On 1 September 1858 Colombia issued its first "stamp", which was a 20 centavos revenue stamp. Exactly one year later, on 1 September 1859, the first postage stamps were put on sale. At that time Colombia was called the Granadine Confederation.
In 2007 the United States Postal Service issued its first undenominated "Forever stamp," which was guaranteed to remain valid for first-class postage despite any and all future postal rate increases. By 2011, the vast majority of new U. S. postal issues were forever stamps, although some new stamps still carried specific denominations.
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United States Postal Service issued a new 3¢ definitive stamp, illustrating a star with red and blue points, specifically as a make up stamp in June 2002. [4] All first-class and postcard stamps issued since 2010 are Forever Stamps, meaning that no make-up stamp is necessary to use them after a rate change.
(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 ...
This was the first time in Korean postal history the North Korean leader appeared on a South Korean postage stamp. See also. Postage stamps and postal history of Korea; Postage stamps and postal history of North Korea; Sources. 김영희 (2008). 한국사회의 미디어 출현과 수용: 1880~1980 (in Korean). 커뮤니케이션북스.
An 1880 stamp of the Gambia. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of the Gambia. The Gambia is a country in West Africa surrounded by Senegal except for a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean in the west. The Gambia River, from which the country takes its name, flows through it. The capital city is Banjul.
1 real first issue 1870, pink, litho, cancelled at Asuncion. The republic of Paraguay issued its first stamps (1, 2, and 3 Reales) on 1 August 1870, [2] featuring a standing lion raising a republican hat, lithographed by R. Lange (Buenos Aires). [3]