The period immediately before and during the early years of postage stamps in this country was particularly rich in interesting and often short-lived experiments in how to prepay and deliver mail. All the postal mechanics and procedures we take for granted today – for printing, distributing, selling, and processing stamps and stamped mail – had [...]

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