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Postal service in Singapore began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps.
1937 stamps of South Africa. The first stamp of the Union of South Africa was a 2 1 ⁄ 2 d stamp issued on 4 November 1910. [2] [3] It portrayed the Monarch King George V and the arms of the four British colonies which formed the Union: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony and Transvaal.
Postage stamps were issued for the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary on 1 June 1867 in eight values along with one 1 Kreuzer (krajcár in Hungarian) newspaper stamp. [2] Stamps of Austria were withdrawn from the Kingdom of Hungary on 31 May 1867. The dual monarchy stamps were in use there for just over one year.
[34]: 50–159 The first miniature sheet of four stamp on stamp postage stamps was issued in 1972 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first Irish postage stamp. [ 34 ] : 50 This was followed by a four-stamp sheet to commemorate the bicentenary of the United States Declaration of Independence ; the stamps in this sheet were also available ...
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.
For these purposes national postage stamps were issued from 1859, bearing the inscription Confed. Granadina Correos Nacionales. [7] In 1861 a series of stamps in five values was issued inscribed Estados Unidos de Nueva Granada, or the United States of New Granada. [7] United States of Colombia, 1877 10 centavos stamp
1915 - British and French occupation forces overprint stamps for Cameroon. 1916 - United States postal inspectors solve the last known stagecoach robbery in the US. 1917- British armed forces in Palestine issue the famous EEF stamps. December 1917; 1918 - United States issues its first airmail stamps; a sheet of the Inverted Jenny is discovered ...
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).