History of Stamps
History of Stamps Stamps have been a part of the postal world for a way longer than a century now. In fact, they have been key to developing a whole new system when in came postage. The very first stamp that has been officially recorded was created in the UK as one among the several postal reforms introduced by Sir Rowland Hill. The idea was mainly meant to transform the way in which that letters are paid for being sent. Traditionally, mail was paid for by the recipient of the envelope instead of the sender. In this way, you’d have to pay for a mail that reaches you even if you hadn’t wished for it to be delivered to you. With the reforms that took place in the Postal services of the UK, stamps were introduces and now letters and packages have to be prepaid for and the recipient would not have to pay for the mails that he received. However, it was also possible for people to send mails without prepaying them simply by not sticking any stamps. The very first stamp that was ...