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The company's first job was to print a series for the Diamond Jubilee celebrating the 60th year of Queen Victoria and the 30th year of confederation, the first commemorative stamps of Canada. The design was a side-by-side of the Chalon vignette of the young Victoria and the likeness photographed by Alexander Bassano in 1887.
Bavarian postal card of 1892. United Kingdom postal card of 1895. A message reply card, still attached, sent from Cuba to Germany, 1894. A Chinese zodiac "Year of the ox" postal card with an overprinted surcharged imprinted stamp, 1997. Postal cards are postal stationery with an imprinted stamp or indicium signifying the
The first commercially produced card was created in 1861 by John P. Charlton of Philadelphia, who patented a private postal card, and sold the rights to Hymen Lipman, whose postcards, complete with a decorated border, were marketed as "Lipman's Postal Card". [1] [2] These cards had no images. While the United States government allowed privately ...
1635 31 July - Charles I made the Royal Mail service available to the public for the first time with postage being paid by the recipient. [7]1639 - The General Court of Massachusetts designates the tavern of Richard Fairbanks in Boston as the official repository of overseas mail, making it the first postal establishment in the Thirteen Colonies.
The word Post is derived from Old French poste, which ultimately stems from the past participle of the Latin verb ponere 'to lay down or place'. [3] So in the U.K., the Royal Mail delivers the post, while in North America both the U.S. Postal Service and Canada Post deliver the mail. The term email, short for "electronic mail", first appeared ...
2024 Canada Post strike; F. First Toronto Post Office; H. James Scott Howard; P. Postage stamps and postal history of Canada; R. Royal Canadian Postal Corps; S ...
A letter card is a postal stationery item consisting of a folded card with a prepaid imprinted stamp. The format was first issued by Belgium in 1882. Great Britain issued their first official letter cards in 1892 and Newfoundland introduced small reply cards starting in 1912. Letter cards had the advantage of providing twice the room for ...
Postal history has become a philatelic collecting speciality in its own right. Whereas traditional philately is concerned with the study of the stamps per se, including the technical aspects of stamp production and distribution, philatelic postal history refers to stamps as historical documents; similarly re postmarks, postcards, envelopes and the letters they contain.