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...

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...

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...

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...

For postage stamps, separation is the means by which individual stamps are made easily detachable from each other. Methods of separation include: perforation:...

states, some of which produced stamps for use within their respective dominions, while British Indian postage stamps were required for sending mail beyond...

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...

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...

A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp, often issued on a significant date such as an anniversary, to honor or commemorate a place, event, person, or...

fih-LAT-ə-lee) is the study of postage stamps and postal history. It also refers to the collection and appreciation of stamps and other philatelic products...

Postage stamps and postal history of Great Britain surveys postal history from the United Kingdom and the postage stamps issued by that country and its...

a long and varied postal history and has produced a large number of postage stamps. These have been produced by a variety of techniques including line...

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...

A definitive stamp is a postage stamp that is part of the regular issue of a country's stamps, available for sale by the post office for an extended period...

Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects. It is an area of philately, which is the study (or combined study and collection)...

prepaid. Proof of payment is usually in the form of an adhesive postage stamp, but a postage meter is also used for bulk mailing. Postal authorities often...

list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way, often due to antiquity or a postage stamp error. Among the best-known stamps are: Penny...

This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Switzerland. The first stamps used in Switzerland were issued by the cantons of Zürich (1843)...

oblitération) is a postal marking applied on a postage stamp or postal stationery to deface the stamp and to prevent its reuse. Cancellations come in...

A coffee stamp is a postage stamp with designs related to coffee. The oldest is believed to have been issued in Ethiopia in 1894. It is estimated that...

the Federation. The stamps referred to above are those listed in the Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalog. A number of other stamps have also been issued...

authority. A postage meter imprints an amount of postage, functioning as a postage stamp, a cancellation and a dated postmark all in one. The meter stamp serves...

The postage stamps and postal system of the Confederate States of America carried the mail of the Confederacy for a brief period in U.S. history. Early...

The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was first issued in the United Kingdom on 1 May 1840 but...

astrophilately (space-related stamp collecting) began. Nations such as the United States and USSR issued commemorative postage stamps depicting spacecraft and...

The postage stamp test is a test used to evaluate nocturnal erections in a workup of male impotence. A length of connected postage stamps connected by...

Non-denominated postage is a postage stamp intended to meet a certain postage rate, but printed without the denomination, the price for that rate. They...

reissued reading "POSTAGE AND REVENUE". The Indian province of Saurashtra did not design any of its own stamps, but before adopting the stamps of India, Saurashtra...

commemorative postage stamp. It featured the logo of the theatre, the dates 1945–1995, and an image of Kapoor. The first day cover, (stamped 15-1-95), showed...