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  2. Postage stamps and postal history of Canada - Wikipedia

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    The postal and philatelic history of Canada concerns postage of the territories which have formed Canada. Before Canadian confederation, the colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland issued stamps in their own names. The postal history falls into four major periods ...

  3. Airmail - Wikipedia

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    Airmail. Airmail instructional mark on a parcel from Kyrgyzstan. 1912 German airmail between Bork and Brück. A cover carried on a 1932 first flight in the north woods of Canada, with a cachet and franked with both a regular and an airmail stamp. Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg ...

  4. Envelope - Wikipedia

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    The No. 10 envelope is the standard business envelope size in the United States. [6] PWG 5101.1 [7] also lists the following even inch sizes for envelopes: 6 × 9, 7 × 9, 9 × 11, 9 × 12, 10 × 13, 10 × 14 and 10 × 15. Envelopes accepted by the U.S. Postal Service for mailing at the price of a letter must be: Rectangular

  5. Mail - Wikipedia

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    Mail envelope (back to back) The word mail comes from the Middle English word male, referring to a travelling bag or pack. [2] It was spelled in that manner until the 17th century and is distinct from the word male. The French have a similar word, malle, for a trunk or large box, and mála is the Irish term for a bag.

  6. Postage stamp - Wikipedia

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    3. Denomination. 4. Country name. 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 cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail). Then the stamp is affixed to the face or address-side of any item of mail —an envelope or other ...

  7. James Chalmers (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Dundee, Scotland. Burial place. 526 Dundee Howff. Nationality. Scottish. Occupation. Inventor. James Chalmers (2 February 1782 – 26 August 1853) was a Scottish inventor (buried on 1 September 1853) who it was claimed, by his son, was the inventor of the adhesive postage stamps. [ a]

  8. Windowed envelope - Wikipedia

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    Windowed envelope. US Patent 701,839 for a windowed envelope. Modern envelope with a single window for the recipient address. A windowed envelope is a conventional envelope with a transparent (typically PET or BOPS Bi-oriented polystyrene [1] plastic film) window to allow the recipient's address to be printed on the paper contained within.

  9. Canada Post - Wikipedia

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    Canada Post (French: Postes Canada) is the Federal Identity Program name. The legal name is Canada Post Corporation in English and Société canadienne des postes in French. During the late 1980s and much of the 1990s, the short forms used in the corporation's logo were "Mail" (English) and "Poste" (French), rendered as "Poste Mail" in Québec ...