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  2. Celebrate the Century - Wikipedia

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    Celebrate the Century is a series of postage stamps made by the United States Postal Service featuring images recalling various important events in the 20th century in the United States. [8] Ten of these sheets were issued, with each sheet depicting events of one decade of the 20th century, from the 1900s to 1990s. [8][9] Fifteen stamps were embedded into each sheet. [8] For the first eight ...

  3. Mail art - Wikipedia

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    Mail art by György Galántai, 1981 Mail art, also known as postal art and correspondence art, is an artistic movement centered on sending small-scale works through the postal service. It developed out of what eventually became Ray Johnson 's New York Correspondence School and the Fluxus movements of the 1960s. It has since developed into a global, ongoing movement.

  4. Correos de México - Wikipedia

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    Correos de México (English: Mails of Mexico), formerly named Servicio Postal Mexicano (Sepomex; English: Mexican Postal Service, MPS), is the national postal service of Mexico. [1] It has been active for over 100 years, [2] and its system has roots going back to 1580. [3][4][5]

  5. List of most expensive philatelic items - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the highest known prices paid for philatelic items, including stamps and covers. The current record price for a single stamp is US$ 9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. [1][2] This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2024. [note 1] Where necessary, the price is first converted to ...

  6. Americana series - Wikipedia

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    The Americana series was a series of United States definitive postage stamps issued between 1975 and 1981. Denominations ranged from one cent to five dollars. It superseded the Prominent Americans series and was in turn superseded by the Great Americans series and the Transportation coils. The series consisted of twenty stamps issued in sheets, twelve issued in coils, and one produced ...

  7. Postage stamps and postal history of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    In 1856, Mexico issued its first adhesive postage stamps, with "district overprints", a unique feature among postal systems worldwide, employed to protect from theft of postage stamps. In 1891, the postal and stamp issuing authority was created as an administrative division of the Secretaría de Comunicaciones (Secretariat of Communications).

  8. List of United States airmail stamps - Wikipedia

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    Domestic U.S. Air Mail was established as a new class of mail service by the United States Post Office Department (POD) on May 15, 1918, with the inauguration of the Washington–Philadelphia–New York route. Special postage stamps were issued for use with this service. [1] Domestic air mail became obsolete in 1975, and international air mail [2] in 1995, when the USPS began transporting ...

  9. Stamps.com - Wikipedia

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    USPS First Class Package International via stamps.com Stamps.com allows users to print official United States Postal Service stamps and shipping labels for a monthly subscription fee of $19.99. [30] Stamps.com sends customers a digital scale to weigh letters and packages to ensure the correct amount of postage is applied to the piece of mail. The amount of postage applied is then deducted from ...