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Postal service in the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps.
1916 - United States postal inspectors solve the last known stagecoach robbery in the US. 1917- British armed forces in Palestine issue the famous EEF stamps. December 1917; 1918 - United States issues its first airmail stamps; a sheet of the Inverted Jenny is discovered among them. 1918 - first stamps of the Italian occupation of Trieste and ...
The full eagle logo, used in various versions from 1970 to 1993. The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas and associated states.
Postage stamps and postal history of the United States; United States Post Office Department; 0–9. 32nd and 33rd Post Headquarters Companies (WAC) 1869 Pictorial Issue;
Grant, Colorado U.S. Post Office Philatelic cover postmarked Officer, Colorado on its last day of service, June 30, 1938. Officer was in eastern Las Animas County, Colorado, near Villegreen. A discontinued post office or DPO is an American postal term for a post office which is no longer in service or is in service under another name.
The United States Post Office Department (USPOD; also known as the Post Office or U.S. Mail) was the predecessor of the United States Postal Service, established in 1792. From 1872 to 1971, it was officially in the form of a Cabinet department. It was headed by the postmaster general.
The Oklahoma Statehood Stamps were issued on June 14, 1957, and January 11, 2007, by the United States Postal Service. The U.S. postage stamps celebrate the 50th and 100th anniversaries of statehood being granted to the state of Oklahoma by the United States of America. Oklahoma was the 46th state to be granted statehood on November 16, 1907.
The Regular Issues of 1922–1931 were a series of 27 U.S. postage stamps issued for general everyday use by the U.S. Post Office. Unlike the definitives previously in use, which presented only a Washington or Franklin image, each of these definitive stamps depicted a different president or other subject, with Washington and Franklin each confined to a single denomination.