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First postals and private postcards (ca. 1865 to 1880) "Feldpost-Correspondenzkarte" (lit. field post correspondence card) used during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. A Prussian postal official, Heinrich von Stephan, first proposed an "open post-sheet" made of stiff paper in 1865.
Backs of these private cards typically contained the words "Correspondence Card", "Mail Card" or "Souvenir Card" The Morgan Envelope Factory of Springfield, Massachusetts, claims to have produced the first American postcard in 1873.
By October 1, 1869 the world's first postal card was produced by Austria-Hungary. They caught on quickly. By the end of 1870, Great Britain, Finland, Switzerland and Württemberg joined the countries issuing postal cards. In the United States, they were first produced in 1873.
1847: First U.S. postage stamps issued; 1857: Perforated stamps introduced; 1860: Pony Express started; 1861: Mailing of post cards authorized; 1873: Prestamped "postal cards" introduced; 1879: Postage due stamps introduced; 1885: Special Delivery service introduced; 1893: First commemorative event stamps: World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 established the postage rates, which have been set by the Postal Regulatory Commission. Historical rates [ edit ] United States domestic first-class & postcard rates, 1863–present ( USD ) [conversion 1]
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.
History of Charlton's postal card. The first postal cards have been used by William Henry Jackson, an artist and photographer, who painted Civil War battlefields in the beginning of the 1860s and used them to write to his family. Charlton invented the private postal card around the same time in 1861 in Philadelphia.
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. [1] A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal systems have generally been established as a government monopoly, with a fee on the article prepaid.
At its peak in 1947, the system held almost $3.4 billion in deposits. In addition to holding cash deposits, the system also sold fixed-term bonds and operated a Savings Card program. These cards provided spaces for a fixed number of postage stamps, each purchased for a few cents.
A postmark is a postal marking made on an envelope, parcel, postcard or the like, indicating the place, date and time that the item was delivered into the care of a postal service, or sometimes indicating where and when received or in transit.