Definition of Postage stamp. Meaning of Postage stamp. Synonyms of Postage stamp

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Definition of Postage stamp

Postage stamp
Postage Post"age, n. The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post. Postage stamp, a government stamp required to be put upon articles sent by mail in payment of the postage, esp. an adhesive stamp issued and sold for that purpose.

Meaning of Postage stamp from wikipedia

- 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...
- adhesive postage stamps, first issued by the U.S. government post office July 1, 1847, in the denominations of five and ten cents, with the use of stamps made...
- appeared on U.S. postage stamps since the mid-19th century. The United States Post Office Department released its first two postage stamps in 1847, featuring...
- Revenue stamps often look very similar to postage stamps, and in some countries and time periods it has been possible to use postage stamps for revenue...
- The postage stamps of Ireland are issued by the postal operator of the independent Irish state. Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain...
- letter basis, rather than weight. The United States issued its first postage stamps in 1847. Before that time, the letters' rates, dates, and origins were...
- Postage stamp reuse is the technique of fraudulently reusing postage stamps from sent mail to avoid paying the cost of postage. A postage stamp is a small...
- states, some of which produced stamps for use within their respective dominions, while British Indian postage stamps were required for sending mail beyond...
- For postage stamps, separation is the means by which individual stamps are made easily detachable from each other. Methods of separation include: perforation:...
- Postage stamp design is the activity of graphic design as applied to postage stamps. Many thousands of designs have been created since a profile bust...