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2. List of United States airmail stamps - Wikipedia

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   Special postage stamps were issued for use with this service. Domestic air mail became obsolete in 1975, and international air mail in 1995, when the USPS began transporting First Class mail by air on a routine basis. All post-1977 United States stamp images are copyright of USPS.

3. Stamp catalog - Wikipedia

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   A stamp catalog (or stamp catalogue) is a catalog of postage stamp types with descriptions and prices. The stamp catalog is an essential tool of philately and stamp collecting. Stamp catalogs are part of philatelic literature . Similar catalogs of other collectible objects. such as matchboxes ( phillumeny) and postcards ( deltiology ), have ...

4. Scott catalogue - Wikipedia

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   The first Scott catalogue was a 21-page pamphlet with the title Descriptive Catalogue of American and Foreign Postage Stamps, Issued from 1840 to Date, Splendidly Illustrated with Colored Engravings and Containing the Current Value of each Variety. It was published in September 1868 by John Walter Scott, an early stamp dealer in New York, and ...

5. Category:Postage stamps of the United States - Wikipedia

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   This category contains only the following file. Stamp 1996US hanukkah.png 392 × 254; 40 KB. Categories: United States Postal Service. Philately of the United States. Postage stamps by country.

6. Rural Free Delivery - Wikipedia

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   Rural Free Delivery ( RFD ), since 1906 officially rural delivery, is a program of the United States Post Office Department to deliver mail directly to rural destinations. The program began in the late 19th century. Before that, people living in rural areas had to pick up mail themselves at sometimes distant post offices or pay private carriers ...

7. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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   Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.