TOP 10 – Top 10 Facts About Stamps

Though we use stamps less and less frequently with digital communication taking over the role of letters the history of stamps still offers fascinating facts. Here are the top 10 of them. Great Britain was the first to issue stamps The first issued postage stamp was the British Penny Black stamp released on May 6, 1840. The Penny Black engraved the profile of Queen Victoria’s head, which remained on all British stamps for the next 60 years. The first stamps did not need to show the issuing country as the invention was started in Great Britain, so no country name was included on them. The United Kingdom remains the only country to not show its name on postage stamps, using only the reigning monarch’s head as country identification. Before the invention of stamps, the sender didn’t pay anything for dispatching mail, and it was the postal services’ task to collect the fees from the recipient. Stamps didn’t always come with a sticky back People used their own glue or paste or figured out other ways to keep the stamp on the envelope. Some people even sewed them on. Nowadays stamps can be printed on gummed paper that you have to […]