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However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased ...
Pages in category "Postal history of the United States". The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Postage stamps and postal history of the United States. United States Post Office Department.
An overprinted Mount Roraima commemorative stamp of 1898. The 1954 72 cent stamp billed the Arapaima as the largest freshwater fish in the world. A privately run packet service for mail existed in British Guiana in 1796, and continued for a number of years. Postage stamps of Britain were used in those days at Georgetown (Demerara) and Berbice ...
The 1 cent stamps for the army and navy issues were issued on the same date, and respectively for the other denominations. See also. Postage stamps and postal history of the United States; Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps; Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps; Champion of Liberty commemorative stamps
The first stamps of the Venezuela were issued on 1 January 1859. [1] Venezuela supported its territorial claim in the Venezuela Crisis of 1895 by printing an 1896 postage stamp with a map showing Guyana up to the east bank of the Essequibo River as "Guayana Venezolana". Guyana years later responded with a series of overprints “ESSEQUIBO IS ...
A 1922 stamp of La Aguera. In June 1920, Spain issued postage stamps of its existing colony Río de Oro overprinted "LA AGÜERA", and followed those up in 1922 with a series portraying King Alfonso XIII and inscribed "SAHARA OCCIDENTAL / LA AGÜERA". [1] These were superseded in 1924 by stamps of Spanish Sahara, as La Güera was incorporated to ...
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a former British colony in the Windward Islands, has produced stamps since 8 May 1861. [1] [2] The stamps featured either the British monarch’s head on them or the ER monogram and crown until around 1970. [3] The stamps were printed with just "St. Vincent" until 1992 when the stamps began to print the full ...
Postage stamps and postal history of Bolívar. An 1863 stamp of Bolivar. Bolívar is a department of Colombia. It was one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia". Bolivar is in the north of the country, extending from the coast at Cartagena near the mouth of the Magdalena River, then south along the river to a border with ...